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A Guide to Methods in the Biomedical Sciences gives a basic description of common methods used in research. This is not intended to be a methods book. Rather, it is intended to be a book that outlines the purpose of the methods described, their limitations and provide alternative approaches as appropriate. Thousands of methods have been developed in the various biomedical disciplines and those covered in this book represent the basic, essential and most widely used methods in several different disciplines. The historical background (including some interesting anecdotes) leading to the development of ground-breaking techniques is described, especially of those that significantly advanced the field of biomedical research. Advances that earned their inventors prestigious Nobel Prizes are emphasized.

The book is divided into six sections, highlighting selected methods in protein chemistry, nucleic acids, recombinant DNA technology (including forensic-based methods), antibody-based techniques, microscopy and imaging, and the use of animals in biomedical sciences.

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Discussing the systemic immune response in the contexts of health, disease, and therapy, this unique resource-the only broadly based book of its kind available on the subject-offers comprehensive examinations of the pathways and agents that affect the human immune response and provides state-of-the-art presentations on practical methods of immune modulation. Focuses on the immune response and modulation in infectious diseases, such as HIV, hepatitis, and parasitic infections and highlights immune modulating agents in gastrointestinal diseases, sepsis, cancer, and autoimmunity! Written by over 50 international authorities representing distinguished institutions in nine countries, Immune Modulating Agents · introduces basic immunoregulatory mechanisms as homeostasis · details cytokines, cellular and humoral immune responses, and hematopoiesis · describes neuroendocrine - immune system interactions and the role of psychological stress on immune competence · delineates factors that influence disease susceptibility, including nutrition · covers drug delivery systems, gene therapy, organ transplantation, arthritis treatment, and vaccination strategies · shows how to design clinical trials using immune modulating agents · and more!
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #2827590 in Books
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If you are interested in learning about Web 2.0 and the history of its development, Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers contains all the information you need to understand Web 2.0 and its importance. Read first person accounts from industry leaders and innovators, who describe the influence and potential of Web 2.0, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services that facilitate collaboration among users. Enjoy interviews with representatives from companies like eBay, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Adobe/Macromedia as you gain a greater understanding Web 2.0.
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Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Is it technology? Is it philosophy? Or is it simply marketing hype? Web 2.0 is a concept so fluid that even the experts in this book don't agree on what it means. Some feel that no definition is even necessary. But most agree on one thing: Web 2.0 is a sweeping tide that's changing the face of the Internet.

Web 2.0 is not about mass marketing. It's about actually understanding the masses. And it's not about controlling the message. It's about engaging the audience and actually hearing what they have to say. It's about enabling creativity, realizing a culture of contribution, and putting the user in control.

Here is a rich smorgasbord of unique viewpoints — from bloggers, social networking developers, corporate communicators, online strategists, distinguished engineers, and others. These are the people who are shaping today's Web. What they have to say can help you shape your organization's future.

The Impact Makers

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Max Mancini eBay
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Alan Meckler Internet.com
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Eric Engleman Bloglines
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Gina Bianchini Ning
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Dorion Carroll Technorati
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Raju Vegesna Zoho
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Richard MacManus Read/Write Web & Web 2.0 WorkGroup
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TJ Kang ThinkFree
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Patrick Crane LinkedIn
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Shaun Walker DotNetNuke
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Biz Stone Twitter
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Seth Steinberg Meebo
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Joshua Schachter Del.icio.us
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Ranjith Kumaran YouSendIt
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Garrett Camp StumbleUpon
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Rodrigo Madanes Skype
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Rod Smith IBM Corporation
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Tim Harris Microsoft Corporation
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Bob Brewin & Tim Bray Sun Microsystems
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Michele Turner Adobe Corporation

From the Back Cover
"Web 2.0 is a course correction for the Internet that is weaving the social fabric back together again ? It's not just your own perceptions and observations anymore; it's back to the old way."
— Patrick Crane, LinkedIn

"Web 2.0 is about giving a lot of control back to the user."
— Michele Turner, Adobe

"Anyone with reasonable smarts can have a good idea for a Web property on Monday and have something on the air two weeks from Thursday."
— Tim Bray, Sun Microsystems

"If you don't do it [Web 2.0],then you'll lose market share and you'll wish you had."
— Seth Sternberg, Meebo

the one-way Web is dead
Web 2.0 is an elusive concept, but one thing is certain — the Web as merely a means of retrieving and displaying information is history. Today's Web is immediate, interactive, innovative. It is user-controlled and community-driven. Organizations, marketers, application developers, and communicators must be ready to respond and to innovate — or be left behind.

These experts are leading the charge. Their ideas are fresh, sometimes experimental, necessarily flexible, and always on the leading edge. They'll prepare you for a Web where users rule.

About the Author
Bradley L. Jones manages various high-profile sites for Jupitermedia (internet.com) that focus on making technical information easy to understand and easy to learn. He oversees a dozen sites including Developer.com, DevX, Gamelan.com, VBForums, jGuru, and Java Boutique. In addition, he writes a weekly e-newsletter and numerous articles devoted to helping readers understand complex topics. He is an internationally bestselling author with a number of books to his credit, and has been recognized as an influencer in the technical community.
Customer Reviews

solid / ok3
you get what's on the cover; 20 interviews with Web 2.0 influencers. as with many interview books, some interviews are more/less appealing to the reader. what is crucial is that at least some should be worth reading and useful. to me, the book succeeds mostly. i found the following interviews particularly interesting; Alan Meckler (internet.com). a lot to learn from somebody who's been in the publishing business since 1969. as to expected from a veteran, he has some challanging statements like `99% of all Web 2.0 properties will never make a diem`. Gina Bianchi (ning.com) was another great interview which sparked lots of enthusiasm for the social network supported by numbers.

a good and solid read - unfortunately far from a must Web 2.0 book

More than just Web 2.05
Web 2.0 Heroes presents you with insights from leading companies and sites. Each chapter focuses on an interview with a different person from leading companies and Web sites. You can see the list of such companies and people above. In most cases the interviewee is a person closely related to the internet and/or overall strategy for the company. As such, you may not have heard the person's name, but you will have likely seen their impact.

When you read this book, you will learn the perspectives and insights from these leaders - these heroes. You'll discover what they consider Web 2.0 to be, what insights they've learned trying to address Web 2.0, and you'll learn what they consider to be the hype versus reality. You might be surprised to find what `highly Web 2.0' site hero considers Web 2.0 to be complete hype!

Web 2.0 Heroes goes way beyond just Web 2.0. These heroes are also asked about other key topics that might be impacting you. This includes giving insights on Software as a Service (SaaS) and Software plus Services (S+S). These topics often come up around discussions of Web sites, so you'll discover their thought s on what the impact of these are. You'll also learn about Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web. This topic is often considered academic, so it is interesting to see what the people on the front lines of Web development think of the topic. You'll get these front-line perspectives from Web 2.0 Heroes.

One of the most interesting things you'll learn from the heroes is the answer to the question "What's next?" There are a few themes as to what the heroes believe to be next. There are also a few interesting insights.

This book is not your typical droning of facts and figures. Rather, it is a casual read that puts you in front of the heroes and gives you their insights. The chapters are based on verbal interviews, so you get some of the `off the cuff' perspectives that most books and written interviews don't provide. As such, there are a lot of comments made that you are not likely to find in other books!

Let me also state that I'm the guy who was given authorship credit on this book. In truth, the authorship is shared with those that I interviewed. It is their words that make up most of the book. It is their words that you will find interesting.

If you read the book, then I'd like to ask you to tell us your favorite quote from one of the people interviewed. Post it here. I think you might find it hard to narrow it down to just one!

Product Description

When you add Pro Tools to your home recording studio, you have the software used to create hit records. Throw in Pro Tools All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Second Edition and you get the insight you need to capture your sounds, edit your tracks, create a mix, and master your songs for the world to hear. Add a generous helping of your own talent and you have the perfect recipe for music stardom.

This fantastic eight-books-in-one package introduces you to Pro Tools audio- and MIDI-recording software and clues you in on basic multitrack recording techniques. You'll get wise to Pro Tools' many features and functions and find out how top recording studios use them to create the biggest hits on the planet. This do-it-now handbook also gets you up to speed on the essential audio-engineering skills you need to make ultra-high-quality recordings. Discover how to:

* Navigate the Pro Tools windows and menus
* Save hours of experimenting and spend more time recording
* Master microphone placement and other home recording basics
* Edit errors out of your tracks
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Don't spend big bucks and many months taking classes in audio engineering and Pro Tools. Get eight quick-reference guides for one great price with Pro Tools All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Second Edition and start recording your breakthrough album right away!
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REditorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
8 books in 1 — from miking to mixing to mastering

Your one-stop guide to the software and hardware that make music magic

When you add Pro Tools to your home recording studio, you have the software used to create hit records. When you add this book to your bookshelf, you get the insight you need to capture your sounds, edit your tracks, create a mix, and master your songs for the world to hear. Add in your talent and you're on your way to music stardom.

Discover how to:

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Navigate the Pro Tools windows and menus
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Master microphone choice and placement
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Edit the errors out of your tracks
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Blend sounds into a final mix
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Work with MIDI instruments and sounds

About the Author
Jeff Strong, the author of Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies, is President of the REI Institute, which is a MusicMedicine research organization and therapy provider. Jeff graduated from the Percussion Institute of Technology at the Musician’s Institute in Los Angeles in 1983, and has worked in or owned a recording studio since 1985. Every week, he records dozens of custom CDs with Pro Tools for his clients. He has also released 12 commercially available therapeutic CDs, 4 of which can be purchased at www.reiinstitute.com. An eight-CD set focusing on shifting the brain is also available beginning Fall 2008 through Sounds True (www.soundstrue.com). Pro Tools All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition is his ninth book.
Customer Reviews

Easy to read, Easy to use5
Like all the other books in this series, this one gives you the need to know information for Pro Tools. It's easy to read and understand. Better than all the others.

True all-in-one5
I am finding this book is living up to its name - 8 books in 1. I have other ProTools reference guides, but I am finding this is the first place I start when looking for a solution to a problem. For pros, it won't replace the Digitools training, but for serious amateurs like myself it is well worth the price.

What you need to start4
Hi There,

just to share with you that this book gives what is announced:

learn how to use protools for people that are starting.

moreover I was surprised to see a lot of additional chapter covering things such as home studio, effects, mics...

It also provides very good sections around mixing and mastering.

I recommend this book :-)

cheers

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Recent advancement and increased growth in Web technologies have resulted in an even greater need for more efficient scheduling and data transmission strategies. An increased reliance on wireless communications devices, with their constraint issues, has further complicated the problem. While both push and pull strategies provide certain solutions, each has limitations that compromise performance. What is becoming clear is that any optimal solutions will require novel push-pull hybrid approaches.


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Data Scheduling and Transmission Strategies in Asymmetric Telecommunications Environments helps systems architects and engineers take on this challenge by providing a thorough discussion of major data and scheduling and transmission strategies. Written by two highly respected pioneering researchers, this work takes a comparative and practical approach that incorporates much of the authors’ original research.

They discuss basic push and pull strategies and examine the challenges posed by customer requests and behavior, before defining ideal hybrid strategies. Exceptionally thorough in this practical approach, they demonstrate the value of separating clients by class and introduce the concept of an importance factor to properly prioritize a system. They also look at a new on-line hybrid solutions for multichannel broadcast problems and go on to address future problems that are likely to remain open.

For those seeking to extract the best performance out of data transmission schemes in asymmetric environments, this invaluable resource is unparalleled in its depth of coverage and innovation.

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This book traces the development of project leadership as fundamental to completing projects effectively, delineates the leadership tasks that must be accomplished at each step of a project’s life, and helps the reader develop wisdom in making decisions both by learning the ramifications of certain decisions and by seeing how those decisions are made in an example project.
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* Published on: 2003-02-07
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Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Timothy J. Kloppenborg, Ph.D., PMP is an associate professor of Management at Williams College of Business, Xavier University, and President of Kloppenborg and Associates, a consulting and training company that specializes in project management. He holds an MBA from Western Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Operations Management from the University of Cincinnati.

Arthur Shriberg, EdD, is a professor of Leadership at Xavier University. Dr. Shriberg has been vice president or dean at four universities and is currently the chair of the Board of Commissioners for the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission and a senior consultant at Pope & Associates, a n international diversity and management consulting firm. He holds degrees from the Wharton School of Business (BS), Xavier University (Executive Business), Boston University (Med), and Teachers College, Columbia University (EdD).

Jayashree Venkatraman, MS, MBA, is an independent consultant providing business-to-business solutions and other solutions to companies. She holds a BS in physics and an MS in computer applications from the University of Madras, India, an MBA from Xavier University, and a certificate in Project Management from the University of Cincinnati.

Product Description

Alarmed by mounting evidence of a national shortage of qualified and willing principals, the authors surveyed and interviewed over 200 school principals from across the country to find out why so many are leaving the profession and how those who stay manage their work. They discovered that regardless of a principal’s race, gender, school level, geographic region, or tenure, there was a remarkable consistency in the challenges identified and suggestions given for revamping the role of the American principal.

Featuring stories shared by practicing principals, this timely volume:

* Offers fresh insights on ways to both attract and retain good principals.
* Shows how successful principals reconcile their expectations and hopes with the realities and disappointments encountered in their work.
* Examines issues common to all principals, such as time management, staff evaluations, keeping the focus on instruction, community expectations, and pursuing a balanced life.
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Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Sheryl Boris-Schacter is a professor and the director of Educational Leadership, and Sondra Langer is an associate professor and director of the Early Childhood Program, both at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Product Description

Based on twelve years involvement with more than two thousand MBAs, managers and professionals, Maximum Performance is a comprehensive analysis of leading and managing people set against a backdrop of accelerating organizational, business and technological change.

It covers traditional topics - such as personal performance and stress management, employee motivation and performance, power and politics, communication skills and leading and managing change, as well as more contemporary issues, such as business ethics in a global economy and leadership in high-tech and virtual organizations. It also looks at how leaders and managers can create cultures to promote essential modern organizational competencies such as creativity and innovation, the effective dissemination and use of knowledge and intellectual capital, and creating systemic intelligent learning capabilities amongst employees.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #2673371 in Books
* Published on: 2005-03-30
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Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher
Based on twelve years involvement with more two thousand MBAs, managers and professionals, Maximum Performance is a comprehensive analysis of leading and managing people set against a backdrop of accelerating organizational, business and technological change.

It covers traditional topics – such as personal performance and stress management, employee motivation and performance, power and politics, communication skills and leading and managing change, as well as more contemporary issues, such as business ethics in a global economy and leadership in high-tech and virtual organizations. It also looks at how leaders and managers can create cultures to promote essential modern organizational competencies such as creativity and innovation, the effective dissemination and use of knowledge and intellectual capital, and creating systemic intelligent learning capabilities amongst employees.

Maximum Performance represents a distillation of the best practical ideas about leadership and people management of recent times, condensed into a form that busy managers and professionals can assimilate and make immediate use of at work in large, medium-sized or small organizations, and in the public or private sector.

About the Author
Nick Forster, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Graduate School of Management, University of Western Australia
Customer Reviews

Towards Performance Excellence in the Era of Chaotic Competition5
After reading the book, the reader tends to be provoked into thinking about the core values, standards and principles that will underpin her leadership and people management practices in the future.

While illustrating his formulations, Forster has very thoughtfully selected the anecdotes and stories about leaders and managers they worked under, as also their personal experiences of leading and managing others. In the chapter on female managers, he has presented evidence to show that successful leaders and managers in western industrialized countries have personal qualities and competencies that encompass male and female characteristics, and hints towards emergence of "a superior hybrid style that will transcend the traditional male-female stereotype" (p. 542). He has demonstrated a rare degree of professionalism in selecting and putting together the contents of the book, including the material, exercises, questionnaires and self-evaluation exercises. He claims to have "tried and tested them in dozens of leadership and management development courses over the last decade" (p. xiii), and he has included only those materials and exercises that worked for busy managers and professionals.

The book comprehensively covers leadership and people management issues that are topical in the present context of competitiveness in the contemporary business environment. In nutshell, the book has argued that organizations and managers that get most out of their people over a long period of time are the ones which focus not just on setting up systems and processes but focus on people management style, people skills and organizational culture to support the systems and processes.


The author has fully succeeded in delivering what he promises to the reader in the preface. He has used little jargon in building his formulations. The editorial and production quality is outstanding. Most other how-to books on people management are simplistic and tend to be prescriptive of universal magical truths, often through bullet points; they are often unrelated to research underpinnings and the contexts in which the prescriptions can be made use of. For, business dynamics is far more complex than it is presumed to be. Forster has related his formulations mostly with the help of anecdotes and stories, which is the hallmark of this book. But he never loses sight of the wider theoretical underpinnings in his narrations. This is reflected in his quoting the American comedian Groucho Marx when he said, "That's all very well in practice--but how does it work in theory" (p. 538).

This book should be an essential reading for all line and human resource managers, and management consultants. It will also be liked by academics belonging to areas such as leading change, performance management and strategic HRM. More than that, it would be found useful by all leaders, who could pick up a good number of insights from it and also develop perspectives from the analyses made. While I read through this book, I had a feeling, I wish I could author it myself.


Debi S. Saini
Professor of Human Resource Management
Management Development Institute
Mehrauli Road, Gurgaon-122 001.

A POWERFUL, PRACTICAL LEADERSHIP GUIDE5
If we were giving a graduate-level class in leadership and people management skills (we are UCLA Business & Management Program instructors) we would choose this book as the text.

If a client asked for a great book to enhance his/her leadership skills, (we consult in organization, compensation & performance management) this would be one of first books we would suggest.

This book is that good!

The book offers a comprehensive guide for developing leadership and people management skills. It's a powerful, broad-spectrum leadership toolkit with a wealth of information about skills and practices, and hundreds of suggestions and opinions from business and political leaders, consultants, and academics.

This book is an outstanding resource for leaders and aspiring leaders. It is filled with anabundance of insights: the distinction it makes between a leader and a manager is one of the best, if not the best, we've read.

Just few of the subjects covered are: the leadership-as-servant philosophy; leaders as coaches and mentors; communication; motivation; leading and managing teams; women as leaders; managing power, politics and conflict; leading organizational and cultural change; creating an innovative organization; leadership and people management in high-tech, networked; and
virtual organizations.

Throughout the book are bullet-point lists, exercises, and to-the-point conclusions. It is clearly written and superbly organized. An excellent bibliography and subject index top off this outstanding work. We highly recommend this book.

Yvette Borcia & Gerry Stern, Editors
Stern's Management Review

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Millions have been inspired by the Bible's spiritual lessons. Now, Lorin Woolfe provides a unique way to view the Bible . . . for leadership lessons that can be applied to our modern business world.

Consider David's courage and innovation in slaying Goliath with just a stone and a sling; Moses' outstanding "succession planning" in picking Joshua; Joseph and the political skills that brought him to the seat of power; and of course, Jesus' compassion, communication skills, and vision that launched Christianity (a long-term success by any measure).

These are leaders among leaders. Their achievements -- and their inspired methods of achievement -- offer a wholly different perspective on business leadership. For the dozens of Biblical stories presented, the book provides:

* A concise retelling of each story * One (or more) leadership lessons suggested by each story * Examples of contemporary business leaders who exhibit some of the inspired traits of these ancient leaders, including: Fred Smith of FedEx, Howard Shultz of Starbucks, Tom Chappell of Tom's of Maine (a "toothpaste with a mission"), Roy Vagelos of Merck, and many more. The chapters cover these universal topics: Courage * Purpose * Communication * Honesty and Integrity * Power and Influence * Performance Management * Team Building * Humility * Compassion * Justice * Encouragement and Consequences * Wisdom * Creating the Future

Each topic concludes with a list of key points to keep in mind as readers continue on their own leadership journeys.
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Editorial Reviews

Review
"The Bible on Leadership" provides keen insights into management and stewardship from a timeless resource. -- Rabbi David Baron

"Woolfe provides a unique way to view the Bible- a leadership tool to be applied to the modern corporate world". -- Christian Retailing

"Woolfe provides a unique way to view the Bible-a leadership tool to be applied to the modern corporate world". -- Christian Reading

Lorin Woolfe boldly brings to life a key message: The Bible is the greatest leadership book for today's business leader. -- Larry S. Julian, Author of God is My CEO: Following God's Principles in a Bottom-Line World

Lorin Woolfe has built a sound and sturdy bridge between modern day business challenges and Biblical lessons. -- Laurie Beth Jones, Author of Jesus, CEO; The Path; and Jesus, Inc.

Rich in revelations and immediate applications.. a book to enlighten and inspire anyone called to lead-regardless of their personal faith -- HIGH HOLIDAYS, 2002 edition

This is a surprising and thought-provoking book. To find a reason to lead and succeed, start with this book. -- BookPage July 2002

Review

Christian Retailing: "Woolfe provides a unique way to view the Bible -- a leadership tool to be applied to the modern corporate world. Rich in business insight, readers will enjoy the leadership lessons gleaned by biblical and modern day readers."

About the Author

Lorin Woolfe (Somers, NY) is a specialist in leadership at the American Management Association, managing a portfolio of 25 leadership seminars given hundreds of times annually throughout the U.S.

Customer Reviews

Biblical & Business Leadership4
If you are looking for a well-written, easy-to-read, "non-bible-thumping" biblical perspective on leadership that can be applied to today's modern business environment, you have found it.

Each of the ten chapters of this extensively-researched book focused on a different commonly-recognized leadership trait (honesty and integrity, purpose, kindness and compassion, humility, communication, performance management, team development, courage, justice and fairness, leadership development). Within each chapter, inter-related sub-chapters featured many leadership-related vignettes about biblical icons (Jesus, Moses, David, Solomon, etc.) and modern business leaders (Jack Welch (General Electric), Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines), Jack Stack (Springfield Remanufacturing), Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield (Ben & Jerry's), etc.). The final page of each chapter was a summary listing of the biblical leadership lessons highlighted throughout the chapter.

I am not as great a student of the Bible as the author, and I believe my relative ignorance limited my appreciation of his impressive biblical knowledge and experience. I would have preferred a less ambitious approach with less diverse leadership material and more time spent setting up and presenting the Bible's 'case studies.' Still, the book provided many excellent leadership lessons from the Bible and the current business world that were informative and relevant to leaders at all levels.

KING DAVID IN THE BOARDROOM5

Lorin Woolfe does a masterful job of exploring the bible for themes that should have relevance for both today's leaders and those aspiring to climb the proverbial ladder of success. Concentrating on everything from integrity, to team building to exhibiting fairness he explores the old and new testaments for shining examples of truely courageous leadership and draws parallels to modern day figures. In doing so he lends deeper meaning to such issues as finding "purpose", "effective communication" and "humility" in the workplace. It is an inspiring read for anyone yearning to travel his or her path with wisdom and fortitude.

Biblical Examples Worth Emulating4
I am always wary of books built around the "lessons" of the Bible, Shakespeare, or any other major source unless I know the author well. Since I have read the Bible, Shakespeare and many other sources, I feel capable of drawing my own conclusions.

This book grabbed my attention after I realized that relatively few people do read the entire Bible these days. It could clearly be a good thing if people learned more about the Bible because they were interested in some other subject.

With that thought in mind, I launched into The Bible on Leadership. I was glad that I did.

Mr. Woolfe does a solid job of drawing on both the old and new testaments to exemplify honesty and integrity, purpose, kindness and compassion, humility, communication, performance management, team development, courage, justice and fairness, and leadership development. To these examples, he adds contemporary business leaders as well. From his small list of modern leaders as exemplars of good practices, you will get a sense of how much we need people to read and apply this book.

Like many books that attempt to use current examples, you will find yourself faulting some choices (possibly including the references to Jack Stack as being too much, Warren Buffett's possible reinsurance-fraud awareness, Ray Gilmartin's honesty preceding the Vioxx debate, and various other one-time icons who have since fallen from public grace).

As a result, I suggest that you focus on the Biblical leaders and mostly ignore the rest. You will be on sounder ground if you do. If you are primarily looking for modern examples, you will probably be disappointed in this book. There are too few of them, and many good choices are omitted.

Mr. Woolfe writes well and he makes Biblical leaders come to life. If you only strive to emulate one of his many examples, you will be a better leader.

Product Description

When it was first published in 1992, the first edition of Leadership for the Common Good presented a revolutionary approach to community and organizational leadership in a shared-power world. Now, in this completely revised and updated edition, Barbara Crosby and John Bryson expand on their proven leadership model and offer new insights and guidance to leaders. This second edition is a practical resource for a new generation of leaders and aspiring leaders and includes success stories, challenges, and real-world experience.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #281519 in Books
* Published on: 2005-01-25
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 496 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
"This book is the most important guide for public policy involvement available. A great achievement, bound to be the most-read strategic guide for every student of public policy and every citizen with a noble cause to embrace." (Andaa L. Delbecq, Santa Clara University)

Review
"Intuition and experience teach us that no one is really ‘in charge’ of anything complex or important. Barbara Crosby and John Bryson have developed this idea into a vividly positive image of the leader's role. ‘Shared-power,’ as they describe, dissect, and show how to work with it, transforms the very definition of leadership for the twenty-first century."
--Harlan Cleveland, author, Nobody in Charge: Essays on the Future of Leadership, and president emeritus, the World Academy of Arts and Sciences

"This important book provides strategies for converting public ideas into necessary public action. It will help leaders in every arena to renew our collective commitment to the common good, one of our most urgent responsibilities to the future."
--Robert H. Bruininks, president, University of Minnesota

"With this book Barbara Crosby and John Bryson again set the standard for modern considerations of public leadership. They have it exactly right in their claim that the best of contemporary leadership involves getting things done by sharing power."
--H. George Frederickson, Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, University of Kansas, and author, The Spirit of Public Administration

"Crosby and Bryson describe why we live in a ‘no one in charge’ world and how we can effectively lead in it. And this is not just any kind of leadership, but collaborative leadership to make sure we get to the twenty-second century whole and humane."
--Barbara J. Nelson, dean, UCLA School of Public Affairs

"Barbara Crosby and John Bryson show how, where, when, and why to bring diverse groups together to rethink and re-envision what is possible in order to advance the common good. We can have a better world!"
--Gary L. Cunningham, director, African American Men’s Project; director, Primary Care for Hennepin County; and CEO, North Point Health and Wellness Center

"Crosby and Bryson provide the practical examples that show how the principles involved in leading for the common good can be applied to real-world problems where shared leadership within and across organizations is a critical determinant of effective social change.",br> --Michael D. Mumford, professor of psychology, University of Oklahoma, and editor, The Leadership Quarterly

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When it was first published in 1992, Leadership for the Common Good presented a revolutionary approach to community and organizational leadership in a shared-power world. Now, in this completely revised and updated edition, Barbara Crosby and John Bryson expand on their proven leadership model and offer new insights and guidance to leaders. This second edition is a practical resource for a new generation of leaders and aspiring leaders and includes success stories, challenges, and real-world experience.

Today's leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They must include others, navigate politics, and find common ground among diverse perspectives. Leadership for the Common Good offers an integrated approach to shared leadership and shows how to tackle the complex problems facing today's organizations and communities. Crosby and Bryson provide guidance, offer hope, and show leaders how to thrive in constantly changing environments. Step-by-step, the book explains how to identify issues and challenges within organizations and communities, facilitate change in public forums and decision-making arenas, and explore and implement solutions.

Leadership for the Common Good is filled with practical information, real-world examples, negotiation techniques, and networking strategies that will inspire leaders and help to mobilize collective action.

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In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. Veteran coach and management consultant David Allen recognizes that time management is useless the minute your schedule is interrupted; setting priorities isn't relevant when your e-mail is down; procrastination solutions won't help if your goals aren't clear. Instead, Allen shares with readers the proven methods he has already introduced in seminars and at top organizations across the country. The key to Getting Things Done? Relaxation.

Allen's premise is simple: our ability to be productive is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve stress-free productivity. His seamless system teaches us how to identify, track, and-most important-choose the next action on all our tasks, commitments, and projects and thus master all the demands on our time while unleashing our creative potential. The book's stylish, dynamic design makes it easy to follow Allen's tips, examples, and inspiration to achieve what we all seek-energy, focus, and relaxed control.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #20955 in Books
* Published on: 2001-01-08
* Released on: 2001-01-04
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 288 pages

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.

Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)

As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen's is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can't junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket"

That's where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen's system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen's ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there's anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It's commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --Timothy Murphy

From AudioFile
Productivity trainer and consultant David Allen offers a crash course in basic time management and personal organization. While Allen's reading is a little stiff, his enthusiasm for the topic and his passion for systems comes across loud and clear. Allen's message is concise: Organize yourself to free your mind for greater pursuits. And this simple production makes that daunting task seem possible. It's a quick glimpse at setting goals, clearing clutter, and staying focused. Allen's reading, although one dimensional, suits the nature of the topic, making this worth the time for the effort it will save down the road. H.L.S. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

From Booklist
Allen, a management consultant and executive coach, provides insights into attaining maximum efficiency and at the same time relaxing whenever one needs or wants to. Readers learn that there is no single means for perfecting organizational efficiency or productivity; rather, the author offers tools to focus energies strategically and tactically without letting anything fall through the cracks. He provides tips, techniques, and tricks for implementation of his workflow management plan, which has two basic components: capture all the things that need to get done into a workable, dependable system; and discipline oneself to make front-end decisions with an action plan for all inputs into that system. In short, do it (quickly), delegate it (appropriately), or defer it. While an infomercial for the author's consulting practice, this road map for organizational efficiency may help many who have too much to do in too little time, both professionally and in their personal lives. Mary Whaley
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Customer Reviews

GTD is helpful for getting organized, less so for time management...3
There are some really good ideas on how to get more organized and less stressed out due to disorganization in this book.

However, I have to say that this book isn't going to really help you deal as effectively with time management or procrastination. It's more a book on how to get organized and stay that way.

For dealing with procrastination and perfectionism, I would highly recommend "The Now Habit" by Neil Fiore (rev. 2007 edition). It ultimately ended up being a much more useful book for me than GTD - although the systems described in both books can easily work together.

Great Book! Even for the Over-Organizers!!5
"Getting Things Done" is a great motivator, as it speaks volumes for the simplicity of how we individually require a set way of organization to really make it flow for our daily interruptions.
This book was a recommendation, and I would also recommend it for both people "on task" and those that are flailing to keep the paper tiger in order. I will use this book over and over to recalibrate both home, work, and electronic devices whenever I am once again needing to regroup and set new goals.

I'm finally able to get things done5
Work: Anything that exists in your world that you look at and 'wish' was different from current reality. In that case, most of what we see around us could be considered work; in today's world, it seems to be work that necessitates knowledge. How much we know, and how we apply that information is the cutting edge between high productivity and burn-out. Real advice for real "knowledge workers." Do you feel overwhelmed by the "problem" of infinite opportunity? How good could that next project be? How prepared for that meeting could your direct report be? When do you stop working on one project in light of the value-add that would come in beginning another? For those of you with "too much to do, and not enough time to do it in," productivity guru (as Fast Company magazine has labeled him) David Allen provides a no-nonsense, fire-tested system that will make sense of your open loops. The Getting Things Done methodology offers a practical yet elegant solution to staying on top of your work, whether it's a personal project like landscaping your yard, to that new B2B site that you're launching next week. David Allen's approach to managing yourself and your world may well be the best advice you'll ever receive. Included are tips and tricks that lead the readers toward learning, practicing and developing techniques for improving personal productivity and individual satisfaction. The behavior sets you practice will prove useful, and add a "sustainable" element to your work/life style. Buy this book, read it, and watch your productivity AND energy go up!

My other favorite productivity book is Squawk! - How to Stop Making Noise and Start Getting Results

Product Description

SPECIAL EDITION Microsoft® Windows Vista® Second Edition



The only Windows Vista book you need



We crafted this book to grow with you, providing the reference material you need as you move toward Vista proficiency and use more advanced features. If you buy only one book on Vista, Special Edition Using Microsoft® Windows Vista®, Second Edition, is the book you need.



• Tired of the constant barrage of spam, spyware, viruses and other ‘Net nasties? We show you how to rebuke the onslaught of hacker attacks, protect your identity, and keep your sanity, all at the same time.

• Is the new Vista interface making your trigger-finger itch? Ours too…that is, until we turned Windows inside out, shook out all the loose parts, and figured out just what makes this beast tick. Learn from our pain and suffering.

• If you finally broke down and purchased a Windows Media Center computer, or if you think you have one and didn’t even know it, you are holding just the book for you. We show you how to get up to speed with your new computer, transforming it from the little PC that could into the media juggernaut, entertainment center, gaming center, and way-better-than-TiVo replacement you never knew it could be.

• Ready to upgrade? We provide from-the-trenches advice on upgrading to Windows Vista. Maybe you to still want to run Windows XP but would like to try Vista for a while to see if you like it. We cover how to dual-boot your computer safely with both operating systems.



Category: Microsoft® Windows Operating System

Covers: Microsoft® Windows Vista®, all versions Windows Vista Service Pack 1

User Level: Beginner–Intermediate



Robert Cowart has written more than 40 books that have sold more than 1 million copies worldwide. He made his name writing for Sybex and Osborne–most notably in the best-selling Mastering Windows series. As an author and media developer for Que, Bob has written numerous Windows titles, including multiple editions of Que’s flagship Windows book, Special Edition Using Microsoft® Windows®.



Brian Knittel is a software developer, consultant, and writer. He’s authored or coauthored many of Que’s best-selling Windows books, including Que’s leading Windows book, Special Edition Using Microsoft® Windows®. Brian also is the author of Windows XP Under the Hood and coauthored Upgrading and Repairing Windows® with Scott Mueller.



On the CD-ROM

More than 80 minutes of how-to video, showing you how to get up to speed with Windows Vista! Bob and Brian show you how the new Vista Welcome Center works, how to personalize and tweak the desktop, how to use the new Windows Explorers, how to manage user accounts and more! Using screen cam videos and voice over, you’ll be able to watch the Windows masters at work, taking the guesswork out of getting up to speed with Vista. It’s like having Bob and Brian sitting next to you while you’re learning how to use Vista!



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* Amazon Sales Rank: #61807 in Books
* Published on: 2008-05-05
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 1536 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Robert Cowart has written more than 40 books on computer programming and applications, with more than a dozen on Windows. His titles include Windows NT Unleashed, Mastering Windows 98, Windows NT Server Administrator’s Bible, and Windows NT Server 4.0: No Experience Required. Several of his books have been bestsellers in their category and have been translated into more than 20 languages. He has written on a wide range of computer-related topics for such magazines as PC Week, PC World, PC Magazine, PC Tech Journal, Mac World, and Microsoft Systems Journal. In addition to working as a freelance consultant specializing in small businesses, he has taught programming classes at the University of California Extension in San Francisco. He has appeared as a special guest on the PBS TV series Computer Chronicles, CNN’s Headline News, ZD-TV’s The Screen Savers, and ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Robert lives in Berkeley, California. In his spare time he is involved in the music world, producing chamber-music concerts and playing various genres of music. He meditates regularly in hopes of rewiring his inner computer.



Brian Knittel has been a software developer for more than 30 years. After doing graduate work in nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance imaging technologies, he began a career as an independent consultant. An eclectic mix of clients has led to long-term projects in medical documentation, workflow management, real-time industrial system control, and most importantly, 20 years of real-world experience with MS-DOS, Windows, and computer networking in the business world. Previously, he coauthored Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP, and contributed to several of Bob Cowart’s other Windows books. Brian also coauthored Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows, with Scott Mueller, and is the sole author of Windows XP Under the Hood. Brian lives in Oakland, California, and spends his free time restoring antique computers and trying to perfect his wood-fired pizza recipes.

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Welcome

Thank you for purchasing or considering the purchase of Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Vista. It's amazing the changes that nearly 20 years can bring to a computer product such as Windows. When we wrote our first Windows book back in the mid-1980s, our publisher didn't even think the book would sell well enough to print more than 5,000 copies. Microsoft stock wasn't even a blip on most investors' radar screens. Boy, were they in the dark! Who could have imagined that a little more than a decade later, anyone who hoped to get hired for even a temp job in a small office would need to know how to use Microsoft Windows, Office, and a PC. Fifteen or so Windows books later, we're still finding new and exciting stuff to tell our readers.

Some people (including the U.S. Department of Justice) claim Microsoft's predominance on the PC operating system arena was won unethically through monopolistic practices. Whether or not this is true (we try, almost successfully, to stay out of the politics in this book), we believe that Windows has earned its position today through reasons other than having a stranglehold on the market. Consider that Windows NT 3.1 had 5 million lines of code. Windows Vista weighs in with about 50 million and takes up 4 or 5 gigabytes of disk space by itself. This represents a lot of work by anyone's accounting. Who could have imagined in 1985 that a mass-market operating system two decades later would have to include support for so many technologies, most of which didn't even exist at the time: DVD, DVD±RW, CD-R and CD-RW, Internet and intranet, MP3, MPEG, WMA, DV, USB, FireWire, APM, ACPI, RAID, UPS, PPOE, gigabit Ethernet, 802.11g, WPA2, IPv6, Teredo, fault tolerance, disk encryption and compression...? The list goes on. And that 4GB of disk space Vista occupies? It would have cost more than a quarter of a million dollars in 1985. Today, it costs a dollar or two.

Although rarely on the bleeding edge of technology, and often playing the role of the dictator with partner businesses and exterminator with competing businesses, Bill Gates has at least been benevolent from the users' point of view. In 1981, when we were building our first computers, the operating system (CP/M) had to be modified in assembly language and recompiled, and hardware parts had to be soldered together to make almost any new addition (such as a video display terminal) work. Virtually nothing was standardized, with the end result being that computers remained out of reach for average folks.

Together, Microsoft, Intel, and IBM changed all that. Today you can purchase a computer, a printer, a scanner, an external disk drive, a keyboard, a modem, a monitor, and a video card over the Internet, plug them in, install Windows, and they'll work together. The creation and adoption (and sometimes forcing) of hardware and software standards that have made the PC a household appliance the world over can largely be credited to Microsoft, like it or not. The unifying glue of this PC revolution has been Windows.

Yes, we all love to hate Windows, but it's here to stay. Linux and Mac OS X are formidable alternatives, but for most of us, at least for some time, Windows and Windows applications are "where it's at." And Windows Vista ushers in truly significant changes to the landscape. That's why we were excited to write this book.
Why This Book?

We all know this book will make an effective doorstop in a few years. You probably have a few already. (We've even written a few!) If you think it contains more information than you need, just remember how helpful a good reference can be when you need it at the 11th hour. And we all know that computer technology changes so fast that it's sometimes easier just to blink and ignore a phase than to study up on it. Windows Vista is definitely a significant upgrade in Windows's security and sophistication—one you're going to need to understand.

Windows Vista might seem similar to its predecessor, Windows XP, but it's a very different animal. Yes, the graphics and display elements are flashier, but it's the deeper changes that matter most. With its radically improved security systems, revamped Control Panel, friendlier network setup tools, new problem-tracking systems, improved support for mobile computers, and completely revamped networking and graphics software infrastructures, Vista leaves Windows XP in the dust. In all ways, it's superior to any operating system Microsoft has ever produced.

Is Windows Vista so easy to use that books are unnecessary? Unfortunately, no. True, as with other releases of Windows, online help is available. As has been the case ever since Windows 95, however, no printed documentation is available (to save Microsoft the cost), and the Help files are written by Microsoft employees and contractors. You won't find criticisms, complaints, workarounds, or suggestions that you use alternative software vendors, let alone explanations of why you have to do things a certain way. For that, you need this book! We will even show you tools and techniques that Microsoft's insiders didn't think were important enough to document at all.

You might know that Windows Vista comes in a bewildering array of versions, primarily Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate (not to mention Starter, which is sold only in emerging markets, and several extra versions sold in the European Union to comply with antitrust court-mandated restrictions). But Vista is Vista, and all that really distinguishes the versions is the availability of various features. Most of the differences matter only in the corporate world, where Vista will be managed by network administrators, so you don't need to worry about those yourself. For the remaining features, we tell you when certain features do or don't apply to your particular version of Windows Vista. (And we show you how to upgrade from one version to a better version, if you want the features your copy doesn't have!)

In this book's many pages, we focus not just on the gee-whiz side of the technology, but why you should care, what you can get from it, and what you can forget about. The lead author on this book has previously written 16 books about Windows, all in plain English (several bestsellers), designed for everyone from rank beginners to full-on system administrators deploying NT Server domains. The coauthor has designed software and networks for more than 20 years and has been writing about Windows for 10 years. We work with and write about various versions of Windows year in and year out. We have a clear understanding of what confuses users and system administrators about installing, configuring, or using Windows, as well as (we hope) how to best convey the solutions to our readers.

While writing this book, we tried to stay vigilant in following four cardinal rules:

* Keep it practical.
* Keep it accurate.
* Keep it concise.
* Keep it interesting, and even crack a joke or two.

We believe that you will find this to be the best and most comprehensive book available on Windows Vista for beginners through advanced users. And whether you use Windows Vista yourself or support others who do, we firmly believe this book will address your questions and needs.

Our book addresses both home and business computer users. We assume you probably are not an engineer, and we do our best to speak in plain English and not snow you with unexplained jargon. As we wrote, we imagined that you, our reader, are a friend or co-worker who's familiar enough with your computer to know what it's capable of, but might not know the details of how to make it all happen. So we show you, in a helpful, friendly, professional tone. In the

Product Description

Windows Vista may be the next big thing, but it still contains enough quirks and unaccountable behaviors to vex anyone. This unique guide not only discusses the most irritating features of the latest Microsoft operating system and how to get around them, but also explains how to improve Windows and do more with the software than Microsoft intended. You'll find information on setup, installation, upgrade from other Windows versions, the revamped interface, new security features, user accounts, troubleshooting, and the markedly improved Internet Explorer 7. Other chapters cover a wide range of key topics: Media Center - tips on photos, videos, music, TV tuners, HD, and the media center engine The Registry - explains the background and tools for working with Windows' database of settings Tinkering Techniques - offers hacking-style customization and problem-solving topics Networking and Wireless - includes LAN setup, WiFi sniffers and access points, connection sharing, firewalls, routers, and FTP Scripting and Automation - introduces simple programming using the Windows Scripting Host for automating repetitive tasks No other book takes our patented cranky, solutions-oriented approach. Our collection of tips, tools and techniques will improve your experience with Windows Vista, so you can control the OS -- rather than the other way around.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #37486 in Books
* Published on: 2008-01-04
* Released on: 2008-01-04
* Format: Illustrated
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 641 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
David A. Karp is the author of the bestselling Windows Annoyances series of books and the founder of Annoyances.org. His other books include eBay Hacks and Windows XP Pocket Reference. David also writes for PC Magazine and is the co-author of Windows XP in a Nutshell.
Customer Reviews

Windows Vista Annoyance- Superb book!5
This book like all the O'reilly books brings you nothing but quality material as you need it. David Karp covered almost every problem you might encounter using Windows Vista, and of course the Solutions to these problems. This is a large book and it's not like the many other tech books that you read and get bored along the way, no it isn't, David has done a great job of entertaining and yet getting to the point.

This is a must have book for anyone using windows Vista. I highly recommend it.Windows Vista Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Hacks

This book made the change EASY!!5
This book made the change EASY!!

Going from XP to Vista was a snap with the help of this book. If you are like me, a very amateur PC user used to XP, this book will make the switch to Vista painless and even fun.

Most useful book on Windows Vista5
This book is written for intermediate users, not beginners, and it is the best. When I purchased a new computer, it came with Windows Vista. So I bought 3 books on Vista, including Microsoft's own "Windows Vista Inside Out". I have found this book consistently more helpful in making the operating system do what I want it to do, rather than what Microsoft thinks it ought to do. It is clear, concise, and humorous; and that makes it easy to read. I just wish it had included a CD of the book, also.

Product Description

This is likely to be the one ADO.NET book that stays next to my desk for quick reference.

— Dennis Hayes, Dot Net Developer's Journal

(Pro ADO.NET 2.0) stands head and shoulders above its competition.

— Thomas Wagner, wagnerblog.com

(Sahil Malik) covers stuff that real developers are confronted with over and over everday. He intentionally focuses on problem areas and how to address them. (And) the absolute best thing about this book is it's readability.

— Bill Ryan, Bill's House O Insomnia

Pro ADO.NET 2.0 is a guide and reference for.NET developers who are looking to further their understanding of ADO.NET 2.0.

This book takes a new approach, focusing on the practical tasks like connecting to the database, retrieving data, and working with transactions, rather than rehashing much of the MSDN documentation. Pro ADO.NET 2.0 offers the deep and much needed practical understanding, viewpoint, and knowledge developers are looking for.

This book explains what is available in ADO.NET by associating it with the need to solve a practical problem and better architect an application, rather than mugging up the hundreds of classes and properties available in the framework.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #316735 in Books
* Published on: 2005-09-19
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 584 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Sahil Malik has been working as a consultant in Microsoft technology for about 9 years now. He has worked for many top notch clients across the globe including many fortune 100 companies and government organizations within the United States. Malik started programming in a DOS world, moved to Win32 API, Borland C++, MFC, VC++/ATL, VB 6, and eventually to .NET in both VB.NET and C# worlds. He is currently helping architect a highly visible public website using ASP.NET 2.0/SQL Server 2005, and also leads the office of emerging technologies at a prominent government office. Malik frequently speaks at local user groups and conferences. He also co-wrote Pro ADO.NET with VB .NET 1.1 . For his community involvement and contribution, he has also been awarded the Microsoft MVP award.
Customer Reviews

Sample Source Codes4
The book is good and subject is good. Just word of warning for you that is using the codes in the books in C#. If you are using the new SQLExpress 2005, please note for specifying the connection in your datasource:
Example:
From author-->"Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=Test;Integrated Security=True"

Doesn't work for me!!!

Solution:

"Data Source=(local)\SqlExpress;Initial Catalog=Test;Integrated Security=True"

Why "\" instead of ""?
Because in Visual Studio 2008, it generates an error saying-->"Unrecognized escape sequence"

Just little small detail but other than that, it's a good book for the subject.

Excellent coverage of ADO.NET 2.0, good examples5
This was the first book I purchased covering ADO.NET 2.0, and I'm very glad it was.

I am an experienced .NET developer, so I was looking for something that was intelligently written, with good real-world example code snippets that can be plugged directly into apps.

Any good programmer tends to develop a consistent pattern of code for a particular task, so I personally like books that are written by such a developer who has worked with the technology long enough to have developed a good pattern of use. Mr. Malik would fit that description.

Another thing I liked about the book is that it does not spend a lot of time on non-ADO.NET topics, so you don't have to skip through a bunch of fluff chapters to get to the topic at hand. Every chapter is relevant and useful.

After reading his book, I subscribed to the author's blog, which also includes some very useful material.

Too many unnecessary analogy1
Not intended for "Pro". Analogies used made this very, very slow and boring. Highly technical terms used were unnecessary and repetitive w/c makes this book can loose the momentum of the reader to focus more on the topics.
Not Recommended even with beginners.

Product Description

ADO.NET revolutionized the way data was accessed through SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. With Microsoft's release of ADO.NET 2, ADO and the .NET Framework are integrated with SQL Server for the first time-enabling you to program .NET applications directly within the SQL Server database.

Packed with sample code and recommended best practices for using ADO.NET 2, this code-intensive book explores the new data types that are available in the 2.0 Framework and discusses the appropriate time and way to use them. You'll learn how to make repetitive, mundane tasks much simpler and you'll walk away with a solid foundation for developing database-driven applications.

What you will learn from this book

* The basics of creating a connection, executing a query, and returning a result
* Best uses for Oracle in the ADO.NET Framework
* The many new features that are available for XML
* How to use the full text search capabilities of Microsoft(r) SQL Server 2005
* Methods for retrieving data and presenting it in various ways
* Why MySQL is a viable option for data storage

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced database developers who want to learn the latest release of ADO.NET 2.0. Knowledge of ADO.NET 1.0, general .NET development, and Microsoft SQL Server is necessary.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #464714 in Books
* Published on: 2005-12-05
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 648 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
ADO.NET revolutionized the way data was accessed through SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. With Microsoft's release of ADO.NET 2, ADO and the .NET Framework are integrated with SQL Server for the first time—enabling you to program .NET applications directly within the SQL Server database.

Packed with sample code and recommended best practices for using ADO.NET 2, this code-intensive book explores the new data types that are available in the 2.0 Framework and discusses the appropriate time and way to use them. You'll learn how to make repetitive, mundane tasks much simpler and you'll walk away with a solid foundation for developing database-driven applications.

What you will learn from this book

* The basics of creating a connection, executing a query, and returning a result
* Best uses for Oracle in the ADO.NET Framework
* The many new features that are available for XML
* How to use the full text search capabilities of Microsoft® SQL Server 2005
* Methods for retrieving data and presenting it in various ways
* Why MySQL is a viable option for data storage

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced database developers who want to learn the latest release of ADO.NET 2.0. Knowledge of ADO.NET 1.0, general .NET development, and Microsoft SQL Server is necessary.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

About the Author
Wallace B. McClure graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990 with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. He continued his education there, receiving a master’s degree in the same field in 1991. Since that time, he has done consulting and development for such companies as Coca-Cola, Bechtel National, Magnatron, and Lucent Technologies, among others. Products and services have included work with ASP, ADO, XML, and SQL Server, as well as numerous applications in the Microsoft .NET Framework. Wally McClure specializes in building applications that have large numbers of users and large amounts of data. He is a Microsoft MVP and an ASPInsider, and a partner in Scalable Development, Inc. You can read Wally’s blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/.

Gregory A. Beamer is a solutions architect specializing in Microsoft Internet technologies. Greg got involved in programming in the early 1990s with Visual Basic 3 and has stayed on the leading edge of Microsoft Internet technologies since the Denali beta (ASP 1.0). Greg first worked with .NET with the PDC 2000 beta and has been on both the SQL Server 2005 and .NET 2.0 betas since spring 2003. When Greg is not working, he spends his time with his wife, Tiffany, and their four daughters, Rebecca, Emily, Annabelle, and Miranda.

John J. Croft IV graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991, receiving a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He then spent five years consulting for large companies, including Coca-Cola, BellSouth, and MCI. Work at these companies primarily involved C and C++ programming and object-oriented systems analysis. His various clients have included both Fortune 100s and small startup companies. Their problems have ranged drastically, from large databases and executive information systems to lithotripter control and satellite telemetry. Croft has completed projects with Java, XML, and, recently, C# and .NET applications. He is a partner in Scalable Development, Inc.

J. Ambrose Little is the editor-in-chief of the ASPAlliance, an ASPInsider, and a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP who currently works as a Web architect for a large credit union in Tampa, Florida. Previously, he worked as a consultant at Verizon, creating XMLWeb Services and middle-tier components, and for BOK Financial’s Web Services department creating ASP.NET applications for their intranet. His pre-.NET programming experience consists mostly of developing Web applications using ASP and VB COM/DCOM for several years. He has a bachelor’s degree in medieval European history, which remains an interest. Apart from developing software, he enjoys movies, reading, writing, foosball, chess, tennis, badminton, and spending time with his wonderful family.

Bill Ryan currently works as a senior software developer for TiBA Solutions in Greenville, SC. He is also a Windows Embedded MVP, has served on Macromedia’s Flash Advisory Board, and helps run two popular .NET Focused Web sites (www.devbuzz.com and www.knowdotnet.com) and his blog www.msmvps.com/WilliamRyan. After earning his master’s degree in business administration, Bill began work as a statistical analyst, but quickly realized that his true love was programming. He has worked in multiple industries, including financial services/securities, manufacturing, health care, pharmaceuticals, and, currently, consulting. Bill is a frequent speaker at user’s group meetings, has spoken at multiple Microsoft Code Camps, and has hosted multiple MSDN Webcasts. Although technologically related things consume most of his time, Bill’s other interests include cult films, economics, Freemasonry, cuckoo clocks, and, most important, his girlfriend, Kim, and her daughter, Sarah.

Phil Winstanley is a Web applications developer working for Portfolio Europe, located in Manchester, England. He has been involved with ASP.NET since its inception, and has developed a deep understanding of the platform. As a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), member of the ASPInsiders, co-owner of Microsoft Web Developers UK, and the North West England Regional Director for the .NET Exchange, Phil is deeply embedded in the development community and works closely with the Web Platforms team at Microsoft, regularly visiting the developers in Redmond, Washington.

David Yack is the president of Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc. He is a hands-on technology consultant with solid management experience in privately held and Fortune 500 companies and has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. David is currently responsible for leading Colorado Technology Consultants’ focus on Microsoft .NET technologies. David is an active participant in the Microsoft development community, ranging from the Denver .NET user group to Microsoft’s Public Communities, such as www.asp.net and http://aspalliance.com. David is the leader of the South Colorado .NET user group. David is recognized by Microsoft as a .NET MVP (Most Valuable Professional).

Jeremy Zongker is a software development manager who works primarily on data-driven ASP.NET applications with Microsoft SQL Server databases. He is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer for .NET and a 2004 MVP for ASP.NET. Jeremy is the founder and senior developer for Trilitech, LLC, a Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, software development company.
Customer Reviews

A good ADO.Net reference4
This book has a lot of good information. I found myself skimming forward just a little but there was still lots of good info to make me want to keep reading. I wish there was sometimes more explanation of why the author feels a certain way but all and all this is book worth owning.

What a letdown3
I have 16 years experience as an adjunct instructor at a community college. I have a BS in Engineering and I'm 3 credits away from my Master's in Comp Sci.
I'm taking time from my class prep to write this review...
I have been assigned to teach a Visual Basic programming class with this book. Had I been given the opportunity to read the text beforehand, I would have fought hard to use some other book. The example code is formatted so poorly that I am embarassed to use it in class. Some of the example code in the book doesn't even match what's available for download on the WROX web site. The QC staff at WROX should be reassigned. I've QC'd many programming textbooks myself and I can see that this stinker was rushed to print without enough editing.
Don't be fooled by the title. The majority of the examples are SQL Server-specific. OK, Visual Studio has a SQL Server bent, given that both are Microsoft Products. That's no secret. However, if the title of the book references Oracle and MySQL, then all the examples should also. If a particular paradigm can only be implemented in SQL Server, then the authors have a responsibility to provide work-arounds for the other DBMS's that are listed on the cover of the book. Arrrgh.

Chapter 1 covers the History of Data Access. That doesn't fit with the remainder of the book. Part of chapter 2 covers normalization, also not a good fit with the remainder of the book. The authors even admit that the book is aimed at software developers who have prior knowledge of ADO .Net and SQL Server. That implies prior knowledge of normalization and database design.

Recently I was at the bookstore with my 11 year-old. I was agonizing over which ASP .Net book (both WROX titles) to purchase, so I held up two possibilities and asked her to help. She noted that one cover had 3 author's faces on it and the other had two. She concluded that the book with 3 faces must be better. I couldn't argue with that logic. This book has seven faces on it, but it just doesn't deliver.

Could not get download code to work. Wiley no help!1
I had hoped that working through this book would bring extra insight and new techniques. After all, I have been a database consultant for 15 years and designed, programed and implemented many large solutions.

I found that the book left much unsaid and detailed instructions non existant. I had problems with the download code. It appears to be tied up with VS team system, so if you are a home or small business who is unfamiliar with tem system then you may have problems.

I contacted Wiley Customer Support, but they just told me the code works and provided nothing helpful.

I will not be buying any more Wrox / Wiley books.

Product Description

A modern, speaking-centred general English course that helps students use language naturally.
A modern, speaking-centred general English course that helps students use language naturally.Product Details

* Published on: 2006-04-27
* Original language: English
* Binding: Paperback
* 64 pages

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Cambridge IELTS 5 contains 4 authentic IELTS papers from Cambridge ESOL, providing the most authentic exam practice available. The audio cassettes accompanying this fifth volume of practice IELTS papers contain all the recorded material required for students to practise the tasks in the Listening papers.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #1934757 in Books
* Published on: 2006-07-10
* Formats: Abridged, Audiobook
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 2
* Binding: Audio Cassette

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Cambridge IELTS 5 contains 4 authentic IELTS papers from Cambridge ESOL, providing the most authentic exam practice available. The audio cassettes accompanying this fifth volume of practice IELTS papers contain all the recorded material required for students to practise the tasks in the Listening papers.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #1934757 in Books
* Published on: 2006-07-10
* Formats: Abridged, Audiobook
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 2
* Binding: Audio Cassette

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* Amazon Sales Rank: #5673296 in Books
* Published on: 1996
* Original language: English
* Binding: Paperback
* 182 pages
Introduction
To the student
These 3 complete Listening tests, 9 complete Reading tests, 9 complete Writing tests and 2 Speaking tests, have been prepared so that you can practice on your own or in a classroom with the help of a teacher. They have been trialled with students at different levels and at language centers internationally. Feedback from trialling has been incorporated at each stage of development.

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Telephoning in English is for professionals and trainees in business, commerce and administration who need to be able to receive and make telephone calls. It is suitable for use in class or for self-study. Telephoning in English develops and consolidates practical telephone skills in a variety of interesting and relevant contexts. Activities range from message-taking and spelling practice to role play, providing learners with a comprehensive course in using the telephone in English.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #1789408 in Books
* Published on: 2004-08-16
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 136 pages

Customer Reviews

My lucky star4
I'm just the beginner in English and I think this is a book I have expexted for a long time. Inside I learn many phrases or sentences that often used in telephone conversation. And now although I'm still beginner but I can express the spirit of this book to my telephone conversation

Product Description

Sams Teach Yourself Game Programming in 24 Hours demystifies game programming by providing clear, practical lessons using C/C++, the industry standard in game programming. The book focuses on the Windows API to construct games for the Windows platform and discusses game theory, including double-buffered graphics, sprite animation, and digitized sound effects and music. A fully functional game engine provides readers with the ability to create their own future games.

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* Amazon Sales Rank: #269462 in Books
* Published on: 2003-01-03
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 512 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Sams Teach Yourself Game Programming in 24 Hours demystifies game programming by providing clear, practical lessons using C/C++, the industry standard in game programming. The book focuses on the Windows API to construct games for the Windows platform and discusses game theory, including double-buffered graphics, sprite animation, and digitized sound effects and music. A fully functional game engine provides readers with the ability to create their own future games.

About the Author

Michael Morrison is a writer, developer, toy inventor, and author of a variety of computer technology books and interactive Web-based courses. In addition to his primary profession as a writer and freelance nerd for hire, Michael is the creative lead at Stalefish Labs, an entertainment company he co-founded with his wife, Masheed. The first commercial debut for Stalefish Labs is a traditional social/trivia game called Tall Tales: The Game of Myths, Legends, and Creative One-Upmanship (http://www.talltalesgame.com/). When not glued to his computer, playing hockey, skateboarding, or watching movies with his wife, Michael enjoys hanging out by his koi pond. You can visit Michael on the Web at http://www.michaelmorrison.com/.

Customer Reviews

You will learn game programming, kind of, but mostly Mike Morrison's game engine.2
I gave this book 2 stars, because it has some good points, mostly really bad points.

The good:
You will be able to make basic 2D sprite games in Windows using this book and the source code on the CD. It encourages you to learn basic techniques involved with the other aspects of game development (sound, music, etc). The book comes with several games that you can run right off the CD.

The bad:
This book doesn't really teach you much. In other Sam's Teach Yourself books, you learn each step of what you are doing, and you can put in the source code yourself. In this one, you merely read about PIECES of the source code, and are expected to run it off the disk. So basically, you are paying for a game engine, a bunch of source code examples, and a tutorial on using the game engine.

I would have enjoyed this book much more if it had spent time explaining exactly what the engine does and how to make it do it, not to mention how the code in your program interacts with the engine. It seems to me that this book is mostly for people who want to "cheat" and copy and paste the code to make their games, rather than understanding what they are doing and writing the code themselves. Since I was someone who wanted the latter, I was sorely disappointed.

What's the audience?3
As far as I can tell, this book is for the beginner. It teaches game programming using C++ and the Win32 API. However, you need a lot of C++ experience before you start this book, so read up. This book also moves at an odd pace. By chapter 3, you're designing a game engine, but then you spend almost the entire book learning to draw sprites and animate them, with a few breaks for input and sound. This book does manage to make acomplishments in some areas where other books fail. You actually create more than one game, whereas other books simply throw a lot of demos at you and culminate in a game. Some topics that I haven't seen anywhere else yet are also covered here, like basic AI, keeping hi-scores, etc. Summary: good if you have a knowledge of DOS C++ and want to get into game programming with the Win32 API, but you may just want to skip this book all together and go straight for DirectX.

What's the audience?3
As far as I can tell, this book is for the beginner. It teaches game programming using C++ and the Win32 API. However, you need a lot of C++ experience before you start this book, so read up. This book also moves at an odd pace. By chapter 3, you're designing a game engine, but then you spend almost the entire book learning to draw sprites and animate them, with a few breaks for input and sound. This book does manage to make acomplishments in some areas where other books fail. You actually create more than one game, whereas other books simply throw a lot of demos at you and culminate in a game. Some topics that I haven't seen anywhere else yet are also covered here, like basic AI, keeping hi-scores, etc. Summary: good if you have a knowledge of DOS C++ and want to get into game programming with the Win32 API, but you may just want to skip this book all together and go straight for DirectX.

Product Description

Sams Teach Yourself Game Programming in 24 Hours demystifies game programming by providing clear, practical lessons using C/C++, the industry standard in game programming. The book focuses on the Windows API to construct games for the Windows platform and discusses game theory, including double-buffered graphics, sprite animation, and digitized sound effects and music. A fully functional game engine provides readers with the ability to create their own future games.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #269462 in Books
* Published on: 2003-01-03
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 512 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Sams Teach Yourself Game Programming in 24 Hours demystifies game programming by providing clear, practical lessons using C/C++, the industry standard in game programming. The book focuses on the Windows API to construct games for the Windows platform and discusses game theory, including double-buffered graphics, sprite animation, and digitized sound effects and music. A fully functional game engine provides readers with the ability to create their own future games.

About the Author

Michael Morrison is a writer, developer, toy inventor, and author of a variety of computer technology books and interactive Web-based courses. In addition to his primary profession as a writer and freelance nerd for hire, Michael is the creative lead at Stalefish Labs, an entertainment company he co-founded with his wife, Masheed. The first commercial debut for Stalefish Labs is a traditional social/trivia game called Tall Tales: The Game of Myths, Legends, and Creative One-Upmanship (http://www.talltalesgame.com/). When not glued to his computer, playing hockey, skateboarding, or watching movies with his wife, Michael enjoys hanging out by his koi pond. You can visit Michael on the Web at http://www.michaelmorrison.com/.

Customer Reviews

You will learn game programming, kind of, but mostly Mike Morrison's game engine.2
I gave this book 2 stars, because it has some good points, mostly really bad points.

The good:
You will be able to make basic 2D sprite games in Windows using this book and the source code on the CD. It encourages you to learn basic techniques involved with the other aspects of game development (sound, music, etc). The book comes with several games that you can run right off the CD.

The bad:
This book doesn't really teach you much. In other Sam's Teach Yourself books, you learn each step of what you are doing, and you can put in the source code yourself. In this one, you merely read about PIECES of the source code, and are expected to run it off the disk. So basically, you are paying for a game engine, a bunch of source code examples, and a tutorial on using the game engine.

I would have enjoyed this book much more if it had spent time explaining exactly what the engine does and how to make it do it, not to mention how the code in your program interacts with the engine. It seems to me that this book is mostly for people who want to "cheat" and copy and paste the code to make their games, rather than understanding what they are doing and writing the code themselves. Since I was someone who wanted the latter, I was sorely disappointed.

What's the audience?3
As far as I can tell, this book is for the beginner. It teaches game programming using C++ and the Win32 API. However, you need a lot of C++ experience before you start this book, so read up. This book also moves at an odd pace. By chapter 3, you're designing a game engine, but then you spend almost the entire book learning to draw sprites and animate them, with a few breaks for input and sound. This book does manage to make acomplishments in some areas where other books fail. You actually create more than one game, whereas other books simply throw a lot of demos at you and culminate in a game. Some topics that I haven't seen anywhere else yet are also covered here, like basic AI, keeping hi-scores, etc. Summary: good if you have a knowledge of DOS C++ and want to get into game programming with the Win32 API, but you may just want to skip this book all together and go straight for DirectX.

What's the audience?3
As far as I can tell, this book is for the beginner. It teaches game programming using C++ and the Win32 API. However, you need a lot of C++ experience before you start this book, so read up. This book also moves at an odd pace. By chapter 3, you're designing a game engine, but then you spend almost the entire book learning to draw sprites and animate them, with a few breaks for input and sound. This book does manage to make acomplishments in some areas where other books fail. You actually create more than one game, whereas other books simply throw a lot of demos at you and culminate in a game. Some topics that I haven't seen anywhere else yet are also covered here, like basic AI, keeping hi-scores, etc. Summary: good if you have a knowledge of DOS C++ and want to get into game programming with the Win32 API, but you may just want to skip this book all together and go straight for DirectX.

Product Description

The great strides made over the last decade in the complexity and network functionality of embedded systems have significantly enhanced their attractiveness for use in critical applications such as medical devices and military communications. However, this expansion into critical areas has presented embedded engineers with a serious new problem: their designs are now being targeted by the same malicious attackers whose predations have plagued traditional systems for years. Rising concerns about data security in embedded devices are leading engineers to pay more attention to security assurance in their designs than ever before. This is particularly challenging due to embedded devices' inherent resource constraints such as limited power and memory. Therefore, traditional security solutions must be customized to fit their profile, and entirely new security concepts must be explored. However, there are few resources available to help engineers understand how to implement security measures within the unique embedded context. This new book from embedded security expert Timothy Stapko is the first to provide engineers with a comprehensive guide to this pivotal topic. From a brief review of basic security concepts, through clear explanations of complex issues such as choosing the best cryptographic algorithms for embedded utilization, the reader is provided with all the information needed to successfully produce safe, secure embedded devices.

.The ONLY book dedicated to a comprehensive coverage of embedded security!
.Covers both hardware and software-based embedded security solutions for preventing and dealing with attacks
.Application case studies support practical explanations of all key topics, including network protocols, wireless and cellular communications, languages (Java and C/++), compilers, web-based interfaces, cryptography, and an entire section on SSL
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #1454024 in Books
* Published on: 2007-08-24
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 480 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
Finally, embedded engineers have their own single-volume resource for defending their designs against would-be hackers!


*Covers both hardware- and software-based embedded security solutions for preventing and dealing with attacks
*Focuses on publicly available or low-cost security options
*Case studies detail securing 8-bit PIC and Rabbit microprocessors

This book builds upon the basics of computer security and optimizes it for embedded systems. Often embedded systems are resource-constrained systems and therefore, may not have the power to implement robust security systems. The author takes on this problem guiding embedded designers, programmers, and engineers on how to build secure, low-cost, and resource-constrained systems.

Various techniques and tools are provided to the reader including:

*Designing embedded-specific security protocols
*Recognizing and dealing with attacks
*Common pitfalls when trying to optimize security
*A discussion of hardware alternatives
*C and other languages and their strengths and weaknesses
*A look at low-level networking protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, PPP, and Ethernet
*An entire chapter on Secure Socket Layers (SSL)
*Strategies for choosing algorithms and protocols for a particular platform
*Working with wireless networking protocols: Bluetooth, ZigBee, and 802.11
*Client/server applications d
detailed

Product Description

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology, AMAST 2008, held in Urbana, IL, USA, in July 2008. The 28 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. Among the topics covered are all current issues in formal methods related to algebraic and logical foundations, software technology, and to programming methodology including concurrent and reactive systems, evolutionary software/adaptive systems, logic and functional programming, object paradigms, constraint programming and concurrency, program verification and transformation, programming calculi, specification languages and tools, formal specification and development case studies, logic, category theory, relation algebra, computational algebra, algebraic foundations for languages and systems, coinduction, theorem proving and logical frameworks for reasoning, logics of programs, as well as algebra and coalgebra.

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* Published on: 2008-08-15
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 432 pages

Product Description

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology, AMAST 2008, held in Urbana, IL, USA, in July 2008. The 28 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. Among the topics covered are all current issues in formal methods related to algebraic and logical foundations, software technology, and to programming methodology including concurrent and reactive systems, evolutionary software/adaptive systems, logic and functional programming, object paradigms, constraint programming and concurrency, program verification and transformation, programming calculi, specification languages and tools, formal specification and development case studies, logic, category theory, relation algebra, computational algebra, algebraic foundations for languages and systems, coinduction, theorem proving and logical frameworks for reasoning, logics of programs, as well as algebra and coalgebra.

Product Details

* Published on: 2008-08-15
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 432 pages

Product Description

Focusing on feature extraction while also covering issues and techniques such as image acquisition, sampling theory, point operations and low-level feature extraction, the authors have a clear and coherent approach that will appeal to a wide range of students and professionals.

*Ideal module text for courses in artificial intelligence, image processing and computer vision
*Essential reading for engineers and academics working in this cutting-edge field
*Supported by free software on a companion website
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #821811 in Books
* Published on: 2002-01-09
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 368 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher
Focusing on feature extraction while also covering issues and techniques such as image acquisition, sampling theory, point operations and low-level feature extraction, the authors have a clear and coherent approach that will appeal to a wide range of students and professionals.

From the Back Cover
*Ideal module text for courses in artificial intelligence, image processing and computer vision
*Essential reading for engineers and academics working in this cutting-edge field
*Supported by free software on a companion website

Image processing and computer vision are currently hot topics with undergraduates and professionals alike. Feature Extraction and Image Processing is the first book to provide a discussion of how techniques in this field can be implemented together, coupled with a deeper presentation of the analytical material. This text is supported with working Matlab and Mathcad files on the web, which not only allow readers to see the techniques described in the book in use, but also lets them explore areas that they are unfamiliar with.

Focusing on feature extraction while also covering issues and techniques such as image acquisition, sampling theory, point operations and low-level feature extraction, the authors have a clear and coherent approach that will appeal to a wide range of students and professionals.

About the Author
University of Southampton, UK

Alberto S. Aguado, University of Surrey, UK

Product Description

Focusing on feature extraction while also covering issues and techniques such as image acquisition, sampling theory, point operations and low-level feature extraction, the authors have a clear and coherent approach that will appeal to a wide range of students and professionals.

*Ideal module text for courses in artificial intelligence, image processing and computer vision
*Essential reading for engineers and academics working in this cutting-edge field
*Supported by free software on a companion website
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #821811 in Books
* Published on: 2002-01-09
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 368 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher
Focusing on feature extraction while also covering issues and techniques such as image acquisition, sampling theory, point operations and low-level feature extraction, the authors have a clear and coherent approach that will appeal to a wide range of students and professionals.

From the Back Cover
*Ideal module text for courses in artificial intelligence, image processing and computer vision
*Essential reading for engineers and academics working in this cutting-edge field
*Supported by free software on a companion website

Image processing and computer vision are currently hot topics with undergraduates and professionals alike. Feature Extraction and Image Processing is the first book to provide a discussion of how techniques in this field can be implemented together, coupled with a deeper presentation of the analytical material. This text is supported with working Matlab and Mathcad files on the web, which not only allow readers to see the techniques described in the book in use, but also lets them explore areas that they are unfamiliar with.

Focusing on feature extraction while also covering issues and techniques such as image acquisition, sampling theory, point operations and low-level feature extraction, the authors have a clear and coherent approach that will appeal to a wide range of students and professionals.

About the Author
University of Southampton, UK

Alberto S. Aguado, University of Surrey, UK

Product Description

* Aimed at both working programmers who are applying for a job where puzzles are an integral part of the interview, as well as techies who just love a good puzzle, this book offers a cache of exciting puzzles
* Features a new series of puzzles, never before published, called elimination puzzles that have a pedagogical aim of helping the reader solve an entire class of Sudoku-like puzzles
* Provides the tools to solve the puzzles by hand and computer
* The first part of each chapter presents a puzzle; the second part shows readers how to solve several classes of puzzles algorithmically; the third part asks the reader to solve a mystery involving codes, puzzles, and geography
* Comes with a unique bonus: if readers actually solve the mystery, they have a chance to win a prize, which will be promoted on wrox.com!

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #24720 in Books
* Published on: 2007-05-07
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 240 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Puzzles for Programmers and Pros

Solving puzzles demands a mindset that starts with a vulnerable openness followed by a rigorous drive to find a solution. Whether you're preparing for a programming job interview or just like a challenge, this book takes you on a tour of problem-solving techniques so you can dramatically improve your skills. You'll learn how to conquer simple elimination puzzles like Sudoku and how to apply heuristic techniques to far more complex problems.

Dr. Shasha provides you with the tools to solve several classes of puzzles by handand computer. These include scheduling,strategic, geometric, and probabilistic puzzles. You'll also find a mystery involving codes, bank accounts, and geography that you can solve for the chance to win a prize. The approaches and techniques in this book will help you solve the kind of application puzzles the real world may throw at you.

What you will learn from this book

* How to expand your puzzle-solving abilities and tackle new challenges
*

Proven steps that will help you quickly progress from basic puzzles to a more advanced level
*

How to prepare for various types of puzzles presented during a programming interview
*

Techniques for determining the best solution to a puzzle
*

Methods for solving puzzles using decryption and combinatorics

Who this book is for

This book is for programmers who need to brush up on their puzzle-solving skills as they prepare for the programming job interview. It is also for anyone who love puzzles and challenges.

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

About the Author
Dr. Dennis Shasha is a professor of Mathematical Sciences in the Department of Computer Science at NYU. Along with research and teaching in biological computing, pattern recognition, database tuning , cryptographic file systems, and the like, Dennis is well-known for his mathematical puzzle column for Dr. Dobbs whose readers are very sharp and his Puzzling Adventures Column for the Scientific American. His puzzle writing has given birth to fictional books about a mathematical detective named Dr. Ecco. Dr. Shasha has also co-authored numerous highly technical books. Dennis speaks often at conferences and is a tireless self-promoter in the world of “mensa-like” puzzles.
Customer Reviews

Great Puzzles5
Terrific set of puzzles for IT. We use them as weekly contests, and most have just the right balance between "can't figure out in your head" and "impossible and massively time consuming" for an office environment. Highly recommended!

Did not like the language of the book2
The puzzle descriptions lack clarity of definitions. In many cases I spent more time trying to understand the description of the problem, then finding the solution. Provided solutions also lack mathematical precision. If I could, I would return this book.

Pratical examples of algorithm in action5
Before reading this book, I actually did not know how to use the dynamic programming algorithm in practice. This books taught me in one page from "Sweet Packs" puzzle. The solution is so simple and elegance that I can still remember it almost a year later. I was surprised to see how an ordinary problem can be solved with an old algorithm from a different perspective.
This book is unique. Unlike other puzzle book, it's dedicated for programmers. And I think doing puzzle from time to time may help improve brain function. Some of the problems can be hard. If you want some simple puzzles for interview, you may also try this book "How would you move mount Fuji? - Microsoft's cult of puzzle".

Product Description

* Aimed at both working programmers who are applying for a job where puzzles are an integral part of the interview, as well as techies who just love a good puzzle, this book offers a cache of exciting puzzles
* Features a new series of puzzles, never before published, called elimination puzzles that have a pedagogical aim of helping the reader solve an entire class of Sudoku-like puzzles
* Provides the tools to solve the puzzles by hand and computer
* The first part of each chapter presents a puzzle; the second part shows readers how to solve several classes of puzzles algorithmically; the third part asks the reader to solve a mystery involving codes, puzzles, and geography
* Comes with a unique bonus: if readers actually solve the mystery, they have a chance to win a prize, which will be promoted on wrox.com!

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #24720 in Books
* Published on: 2007-05-07
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 240 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Puzzles for Programmers and Pros

Solving puzzles demands a mindset that starts with a vulnerable openness followed by a rigorous drive to find a solution. Whether you're preparing for a programming job interview or just like a challenge, this book takes you on a tour of problem-solving techniques so you can dramatically improve your skills. You'll learn how to conquer simple elimination puzzles like Sudoku and how to apply heuristic techniques to far more complex problems.

Dr. Shasha provides you with the tools to solve several classes of puzzles by handand computer. These include scheduling,strategic, geometric, and probabilistic puzzles. You'll also find a mystery involving codes, bank accounts, and geography that you can solve for the chance to win a prize. The approaches and techniques in this book will help you solve the kind of application puzzles the real world may throw at you.

What you will learn from this book

* How to expand your puzzle-solving abilities and tackle new challenges
*

Proven steps that will help you quickly progress from basic puzzles to a more advanced level
*

How to prepare for various types of puzzles presented during a programming interview
*

Techniques for determining the best solution to a puzzle
*

Methods for solving puzzles using decryption and combinatorics

Who this book is for

This book is for programmers who need to brush up on their puzzle-solving skills as they prepare for the programming job interview. It is also for anyone who love puzzles and challenges.

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

About the Author
Dr. Dennis Shasha is a professor of Mathematical Sciences in the Department of Computer Science at NYU. Along with research and teaching in biological computing, pattern recognition, database tuning , cryptographic file systems, and the like, Dennis is well-known for his mathematical puzzle column for Dr. Dobbs whose readers are very sharp and his Puzzling Adventures Column for the Scientific American. His puzzle writing has given birth to fictional books about a mathematical detective named Dr. Ecco. Dr. Shasha has also co-authored numerous highly technical books. Dennis speaks often at conferences and is a tireless self-promoter in the world of “mensa-like” puzzles.
Customer Reviews

Great Puzzles5
Terrific set of puzzles for IT. We use them as weekly contests, and most have just the right balance between "can't figure out in your head" and "impossible and massively time consuming" for an office environment. Highly recommended!

Did not like the language of the book2
The puzzle descriptions lack clarity of definitions. In many cases I spent more time trying to understand the description of the problem, then finding the solution. Provided solutions also lack mathematical precision. If I could, I would return this book.

Pratical examples of algorithm in action5
Before reading this book, I actually did not know how to use the dynamic programming algorithm in practice. This books taught me in one page from "Sweet Packs" puzzle. The solution is so simple and elegance that I can still remember it almost a year later. I was surprised to see how an ordinary problem can be solved with an old algorithm from a different perspective.
This book is unique. Unlike other puzzle book, it's dedicated for programmers. And I think doing puzzle from time to time may help improve brain function. Some of the problems can be hard. If you want some simple puzzles for interview, you may also try this book "How would you move mount Fuji? - Microsoft's cult of puzzle".

Product Description

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Unleashed provides a comprehensive and in-depth overview of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and Enterprise Project Management (EPM). This book should be used as a reference to guide you through system capabilities and the use of more advanced product features in the context of your business processes. In this book you will find cutting-edge information, including the necessary framework and approach to implement a complex project management software product. Find practical, real-world guidance on how to plan, install, configure, deploy, use, manage, and customize your EPM Implementation. This book is your only in-depth source for Microsoft Office Project Server 2007!
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #40291 in Books
* Published on: 2007-11-01
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 1320 pages

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About the Author
QuantumPM, LLC is a project, program, and portfolio management product and services firm that helps its clients create pragmatic and valuable solutions to address real-world problems. The company combines state-of-the-art tools from Microsoft and other technology leaders, its own expertise, and industry best practices to create solutions that support the way its customers work. QuantumPM products and services include management consulting, technical consulting, training, hosting services, earned value management, and business intelligence solutions.

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Introduction to Enterprise Project Management

Throughout this book, you will see that Enterprise Project Management (EPM; also called Enterprise Portfolio Management) is made up of two components: philosophy and tool. Although the book is primarily technical in nature, it is impossible to separate the technology from the environment in which it works. This software is not a "magic bullet" that will solve all process problems. Although it is great software, it has limitations, and the primary one is that it is only as good as the processes that surround the tool.
Why We Wrote This Book

The Sams Publishing Unleashed series is intended for both beginner and intermediate audiences. The primary purpose of this book is to provide knowledge to the reader of the capabilities of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, a robust EPM software application. It does not provide a step-by-step cookbook answer but rather provides the logic and approach that should be used for implementing a complex project management software product. Unlike other server products, EPM requires extensive knowledge of the project management domain and the business goals to install and configure it in the most optimal manner.

Much of the material covered in this book is simple enough for a beginner to understand but it also allows you to grow with the book as more advanced topics are covered. The intermediate user will find that the material is new and interesting and provides practical tips, tricks, and guidelines based on this team's experience of hundreds of successful EPM installations and implementations for thousands of users.

This book is comprehensive enough to be a source of powerful and meaningful information but is not meant to be a "cradle-to-grave" guide of all things possible with this software. It does need to fit in a briefcase or next to your desk!

The team is excited to offer you the opportunity to get into the consultants' heads and get some practical and real-world examples on how to plan, install, configure, deploy, and manage an EPM implementation.
How This Book Is Organized

This book is divided into six parts designed to be of interest to a wide variety of readers. Some of the chapters focus on planning and organization, whereas others focus on technology details. The following information should help you decide which chapters are important for your role.
Part I—Initiating Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Implementation

Part I is an introduction to the software application and to the philosophy of approach to EPM. It is intended for all audiences to provide context for successfully planning and managing the EPM environment.

Chapter 1, "Enterprise Project Management Overview," describes enterprise thinking and what it takes to be successful with deployment of a software tool. The tool is not a magic bullet that will solve all problems regarding people, process, and environment.

Chapter 2, "Understanding Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 as an Enterprise Project Management Solution," is an overview of the major features of the EPM tool and how these features are integrated within the tool.

Chapter 3, "Initiating Your EPM Implementation," discusses what you should do and understand before beginning your EPM implementation planning. In addition to reviewing organizational factors and processes that you need to consider, the chapter details business justification, scope development, and obtaining authority to proceed as necessary steps before starting the planning process.
Part II—Planning Your Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Implementation

Part II discusses what your business and IT staff must do to properly plan and prepare for the implementation. Chapters in this part detail organizational processes and roles, Project Server 2007 architecture, and the technical design of the solution integrating your business processes.

Chapter 4, "Planning the Organizational Processes and Roles," helps the reader approach the implementation of this tool realistically by first understanding the key focus areas. In addition, you will understand how Project Server 2007 features and functions address the main usage scenarios, the planning of Project Server 2007 users and roles, planning project phases to be integrated into the solution, planning the actual deployment of the tool, migration planning, development of operational policies and processes, and finalizing and communicating implementation scope.

Chapter 5, "Understanding Microsoft office 2007 Project Server Architecture," provides the high-level view of the software components, the solution architecture, and considerations for scalability and security.

Chapter 6, "Designing the Enterprise Project Management Solution Architecture Details," provides an in-depth look at design requirements that must be considered when planning an EPM implementation.
Part III—Implementing Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

Part III discusses the steps necessary for implementing Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. The intended audience for the chapters in this part are members of the implementation team.

Chapter 7, "Installing Microsoft Office Project Server 2007," focuses on the high level steps and checklists, as well as useful references to already existing materials for installing Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. In addition, it provides a post-installation validation checklist that verifies the success of the installation—a crucial step prior to configuring the solution.

Chapter 8, "Configuring Your EPM Solution," provides an introduction to configuring the solution as well as reminds the implementation team to revisit business requirements to ensure that the solution addresses the key user needs and functionality.

Chapter 9, "Configuring Security Model Settings," addresses the security options and capabilities of the software. This important chapter helps the reader create a security model that is both robust and flexible so that it does not require a great deal of administrative time to maintain.

Chapter 10, "Configuring Enterprise Custom Fields," describes the core configuration elements of the software. Configuration models vary from organization to organization based on the complexity of the setup and the needs of the business. This chapter discusses the options available for the user.

Chapter 11, "Configuring Resources Attributes and Resource Pool," discusses the details of configuring the resource breakdown structure and configuring the resource pool, including resource types, matching skill sets, and synchronizing with Active Directory.

Chapter 12, "Configuring Calendars," explains the various settings and functionality of the Enterprise Global calendars and design considerations for various ways to configure the solution.

Chapter 13, "Configuring Task and Time Management Settings," explains the difference in the functionality of task and time management and the configuration options available to your organization to best fit your business model and processes.

Chapter 14, "Standardizing Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 Global Settings," discusses ways to standardize views, tables, toolbars, forms, maps, and other elements across your organization.

Chapter 15, "Configuring the Microsoft Office Project Web Access 2007 Interface," details the configuration options for the look and feel elements of the web-based Project Server 2007 component, Project Web Access.

Chapter 16, "Configuring Operational Policies," provides details for configuring and handling alerts and reminders, enterprise settings, server-side event handlers, Active Directory synchronization, project workspace management, and provisioning settings.

Chapter 17, "Configuring Reporting and Analysis," explains how an organization can set up views of the data and reports to meet the needs of di...
Customer Reviews

If you're implementing Project Server, THIS IS THE BOOK5
This is actually one of the best books I have seen in support of a product. Not only does it provide in depth information, it is specific to certain 'views' about the product, including technical, business, adoption, etc. If you are implementing Project Server, this will be one of the wisest decisions you could make to purchase this book.

Product Description

Threats to Macintosh's OS X operating system are increasing in sophistication and number. Whether it is the exploitation of an increasing number of holes, use of rootkits for post compromise concealment or distributed denial of service, knowing how the system is vulnerable and how to defend it is critical to computer security. This book brings all this information together, providing a solid basis to help you succeed in protecting your organization from risk.

* Cuts through the hype with a serious discussion of the security
vulnerabilities of the Mac OS X operating system
* Reveals techniques by which OS X can be "owned"
* Details procedures to defeat these techniques
* Offers a sober look at emerging threats and trends
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #1258784 in Books
* Published on: 2008-04-25
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 400 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
David Harley (BA, CISSP) has written or contributed to over a dozen security books, including Viruses Revealed and the forthcoming AVIEN Malware Defense Guide for the Enterprise. He is an experienced and well-respected antivirus researcher, and he also holds qualifications in security audit (BS7799 Lead Auditor), ITIL Service Management, and medical informatics. His background includes security analysis for a major medical research charity and managing the Threat Assessment Centre for the U.K.s National Health Service, specializing in the management of malware and e-mail security. His Small Blue-Green World provides consultancy and authoring services to the security industry, and he is a frequent speaker at security conferences.
Customer Reviews

not recommended1
I ordered this one too fast, few days later first reviews were available and like them I can't recommend this book. too fragmented information without structure, looses the focus of other books covering same topics, its more a bunch of stories and scenarios around apple macs in history

Disorganized and lacking depth2
OS X Exploits and Defense suffers from a number of problems. The organization is totally random. Each author's chapters are unrelated to the others, and there's no real progression. The description of the book seems to be more advanced, targeted at people who write exploits and do system level hardening, but the actual content is mostly beginner-oriented. The writing is poor and in need of some good editing and proofreading.

Here's a description of the first 5 chapters.
Chapter 1:
Macintosh OS X Boot Process and Forensic Software.
2 pages of introduction. 2 pages of describing the boot process, which mainly consists of "There is this thing called EFI and xnu, and here are some keys that you can press during boot to do stuff". It mentions that you can boot off a CD to reset the password, but doesn't mention setting a firmware password. 10 pages describing third party forensic software, which didn't really seem to have any relation to booting, so why are they in the same chapter?

Chapter 2: Past and current threats
A few pages on how some people think OS 9 was invincible, but it really isn't. A few pages on how buffer overflows are exploitable on OS 9, and demonstrating an overflow (but not an exploit) in Eudora for OS 9. First, who cares about OS 9? Second, of course buffer overflows are exploitable on OS 9. Why would anyone devote any time to this?

The chapter moves on to OS X, which is a lot more interesting. It describes some old vulnerabilities. Then there are sections on Unicode exploits, exploiting PowerPC binaries on Intel, and exploiting Wine-based Windows applications. All are interesting and relatively novel, although they are light on explanation and heavy on uncommented gdb output. There is some discussion of tricks that malware can use to hide itself, and some discussion of exploit techniques. Aside from the OS 9 content, this whole chapter was good.

Chapter 3: Malicious Macs: Malware and the Mac
It describes different types of malware, and specific instances of malware that have been targeted at old versions of Mac OS, as well as Mac OS X. It devotes a lot of time to arguing that malware can affect Mac OS X, and has. Which is true, but to any security-minded reader that should already be obvious, so I don't know what the point is. We all know idiot Mac users who think they're invincible, but they don't read books like this.

Chapter 4: Malware detection and the Mac
There's some discussion of whether or not anti-malware software is needed on the Mac, a brief discussion of malware detection techniques, and an overview of some available anti-malware software. All of this is fine, but it's at a low technical level suitable for an end user trying to decide what anti-virus program to buy. It doesn't fit with the book's marketed demographic.

Chapter 5: Mac OS X for Pen Testers
This chapter covers:
Running Terminal, running perl, installing and using CPAN, X11, compiling open source programs, an overview of open source security programs. There's a 6 page section on how to build Wireshark. The intended audience for this is again at a very rudimentary skill level.

This book's main problem is that it lacks focus, which might have something to do with the fact that it has 5 authors. It's all over the place in terms of the topics, and the intended audience. I think there are some people who might like any given chapter, but few who would want to read the whole thing. And there is very little content in the book that is novel, that you couldn't find just by Googling. I have higher hopes for "The Mac Hacker's Handbook" by Charles Miller and Dino Dai Zovi, which hasn't been released yet, so we'll see.

Product Description


Handrack's 2007 edition of the C.I.A. World Factbook provides a "snapshot" of the world as of 18 January, 2007.

The World Factbook, produced annually by the The Central Intelligence Agency, has become the ultimate, authoritative source of information on all the nations of the world.

It provides current data for more than 270 countries and territories. The information in this title is updated currently through the year by the CIA, this edition contains information as of 18 January, 2007.

The following categories of information are covered for over 270 countries:

* Flag Graphic
* Map Image (tap on the map to get a larger scrollable image)
* Background
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #68028 in eBooks
* Published on: 2007-01-29
* Released on: 2007-01-29
* Format: Kindle Book
* Number of items: 1

Editorial Reviews

Review
"A valuable, easy-to-use worldwide information source." -- World Affairs Council Booknotes

"Excellent . . . a wealth of unclassified data is provided. . . . An indispensable reference for those involved in global political, military, diplomatic, or economic affairs." -- Sea Power

"Excellent for answering quick reference questions on the nations of the world." -- American Reference Books Annual
Customer Reviews

A good place to start5
You can get this information online for free--and there is a newer edition out, but it costs twice as much--but it's nice to have the reference material on your Kindle for browsing while you're stuck in some waiting room. The information is essentially factual, presented in a rigid format (all countries treated exactly the same); it's an encyclopedic compendium that any student needing to write a term paper would have a field day with.

I think the geographical coordinates are extremely helpful, because if you find an area you are interested in further exploring, you can call it up via Google Earth. I like, too, the fact that it discusses environmental treaties and issues for the various countries.

We're not too far from retirement and are dreaming about becoming American expatriates--not sure where yet; a lot will depend on the dollar's decline--so this fact book is very helpful in our researches.

Product Description

* Aimed at both working programmers who are applying for a job where puzzles are an integral part of the interview, as well as techies who just love a good puzzle, this book offers a cache of exciting puzzles
* Features a new series of puzzles, never before published, called elimination puzzles that have a pedagogical aim of helping the reader solve an entire class of Sudoku-like puzzles
* Provides the tools to solve the puzzles by hand and computer
* The first part of each chapter presents a puzzle; the second part shows readers how to solve several classes of puzzles algorithmically; the third part asks the reader to solve a mystery involving codes, puzzles, and geography
* Comes with a unique bonus: if readers actually solve the mystery, they have a chance to win a prize, which will be promoted on wrox.com!

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #24568 in Books
* Published on: 2007-05-07
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 240 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Puzzles for Programmers and Pros

Solving puzzles demands a mindset that starts with a vulnerable openness followed by a rigorous drive to find a solution. Whether you're preparing for a programming job interview or just like a challenge, this book takes you on a tour of problem-solving techniques so you can dramatically improve your skills. You'll learn how to conquer simple elimination puzzles like Sudoku and how to apply heuristic techniques to far more complex problems.

Dr. Shasha provides you with the tools to solve several classes of puzzles by handand computer. These include scheduling,strategic, geometric, and probabilistic puzzles. You'll also find a mystery involving codes, bank accounts, and geography that you can solve for the chance to win a prize. The approaches and techniques in this book will help you solve the kind of application puzzles the real world may throw at you.

What you will learn from this book

* How to expand your puzzle-solving abilities and tackle new challenges
*

Proven steps that will help you quickly progress from basic puzzles to a more advanced level
*

How to prepare for various types of puzzles presented during a programming interview
*

Techniques for determining the best solution to a puzzle
*

Methods for solving puzzles using decryption and combinatorics

Who this book is for

This book is for programmers who need to brush up on their puzzle-solving skills as they prepare for the programming job interview. It is also for anyone who love puzzles and challenges.

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

About the Author
Dr. Dennis Shasha is a professor of Mathematical Sciences in the Department of Computer Science at NYU. Along with research and teaching in biological computing, pattern recognition, database tuning , cryptographic file systems, and the like, Dennis is well-known for his mathematical puzzle column for Dr. Dobbs whose readers are very sharp and his Puzzling Adventures Column for the Scientific American. His puzzle writing has given birth to fictional books about a mathematical detective named Dr. Ecco. Dr. Shasha has also co-authored numerous highly technical books. Dennis speaks often at conferences and is a tireless self-promoter in the world of “mensa-like” puzzles.
Customer Reviews

Great Puzzles5
Terrific set of puzzles for IT. We use them as weekly contests, and most have just the right balance between "can't figure out in your head" and "impossible and massively time consuming" for an office environment. Highly recommended!

Did not like the language of the book2
The puzzle descriptions lack clarity of definitions. In many cases I spent more time trying to understand the description of the problem, then finding the solution. Provided solutions also lack mathematical precision. If I could, I would return this book.

Pratical examples of algorithm in action5
Before reading this book, I actually did not know how to use the dynamic programming algorithm in practice. This books taught me in one page from "Sweet Packs" puzzle. The solution is so simple and elegance that I can still remember it almost a year later. I was surprised to see how an ordinary problem can be solved with an old algorithm from a different perspective.
This book is unique. Unlike other puzzle book, it's dedicated for programmers. And I think doing puzzle from time to time may help improve brain function. Some of the problems can be hard. If you want some simple puzzles for interview, you may also try this book "How would you move mount Fuji? - Microsoft's cult of puzzle".

Product Description

Programming Interviews Exposed
2nd Edition

The pressure is on during the interview process but with the right preparation, you can walk away with your dream job. This classic book uncovers what interviews are really like at America's top software and computer companies and provides you with the tools to succeed in any situation. The authors take you step-by-step through new problems and complex brainteasers they were asked during recent technical interviews.

50 interview scenarios are presented along with in-depth analysis of the possible solutions. The problem-solving process is clearly illustrated so you'll be able to easily apply what you've learned during crunch time. You'll also find expert tips on what questions to ask, how to approach a problem, and how to recover if you become stuck. All of this will help you ace the interview and get the job you want.

What you will learn from this book

* Tips for effectively completing the job application
*

Ways to prepare for the entire programming interview process
*

How to find the kind of programming job that fits you best
*

Strategies for choosing a solution and what your approach says about you
*

How to improve your interviewing skills so that you can respond to any question or situation
*

Techniques for solving knowledge-based problems, logic puzzles, and programming problems

Who this book is for

This book is for programmers and developers applying for jobs in the software industry or in IT departments of major corporations.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #3934 in Books
* Published on: 2007-04-30
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 264 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
Although designed for computer science undergraduates, this odd but intriguing book will find a broader readership because of its interesting discussion of problems and solutions. The author, both veteran programmers, based this work on questions they were asked during interviews with big league companies. About 22 pages cover social etiquette and dress and about 220 pages deal with solving programming queries that interviewers pose, from linked lists and tree navigation to sorting and recursion; highly recommended for all college, university, and large public libraries.

From the Back Cover

Programming Interviews Exposed
2nd Edition

The pressure is on during the interview process but with the right preparation, you can walk away with your dream job. This classic book uncovers what interviews are really like at America's top software and computer companies and provides you with the tools to succeed in any situation. The authors take you step-by-step through new problems and complex brainteasers they were asked during recent technical interviews.

50 interview scenarios are presented along with in-depth analysis of the possible solutions. The problem-solving process is clearly illustrated so you'll be able to easily apply what you've learned during crunch time. You'll also find expert tips on what questions to ask, how to approach a problem, and how to recover if you become stuck. All of this will help you ace the interview and get the job you want.

What you will learn from this book

* Tips for effectively completing the job application
*

Ways to prepare for the entire programming interview process
*

How to find the kind of programming job that fits you best
*

Strategies for choosing a solution and what your approach says about you
*

How to improve your interviewing skills so that you can respond to any question or situation
*

Techniques for solving knowledge-based problems, logic puzzles, and programming problems

Who this book is for

This book is for programmers and developers applying for jobs in the software industry or in IT departments of major corporations.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

About the Author
John Mongan is a self-taught programmer with professional experience as a consultant for software and pharmaceutical companies. He has three patents on software testing technologies. He holds a BS in chemistry from Stanford and a PhD in Bioinformatics from UC San Diego, with thesis work in supercomputer simulations of protein dynamics.

Noah Suojanen Kindler graduated from Stanford with a BS in computer science, has worked for Boeing and is currently a consultant.

Eric Giguere is a software developer and the author of three Wiley programming books. He is a frequent speaker and is often interviewed by USA Today and other broad media on various topics.
Customer Reviews

OK but don't rely on this book alone.3
I bought this book primarily for the walk-thrus in puzzle solving and eventually came to the conclusion that it did an OK job but not great one. The solutions are often sub-optimal and overly complicated (sloppy), but the biggest problem I have with the book is that is doesn't really develop generalized and reliable approaches to solving problems. Probably the starkest example of this is in the treatment of recursive routines. It talks a lot about recursive solutions but it doesn't provide much guidance in identifying and implementing them.

Overall if you are preparing for a technical interview I would definitely not rely on this book alone. Studying computer algorithms and data structures may be more beneficial.

Good book for CS people or people who need to find a job in CS.4
Good book for CS people or people who need to find a job in CS.

Worth to own5
Cannot say more. Must have if you prepare for interview. Also good for interviewer as a reference for interview questions.

Product Description

Discussing the systemic immune response in the contexts of health, disease, and therapy, this unique resource-the only broadly based book of its kind available on the subject-offers comprehensive examinations of the pathways and agents that affect the human immune response and provides state-of-the-art presentations on practical methods of immune modulation. Focuses on the immune response and modulation in infectious diseases, such as HIV, hepatitis, and parasitic infections and highlights immune modulating agents in gastrointestinal diseases, sepsis, cancer, and autoimmunity! Written by over 50 international authorities representing distinguished institutions in nine countries, Immune Modulating Agents · introduces basic immunoregulatory mechanisms as homeostasis · details cytokines, cellular and humoral immune responses, and hematopoiesis · describes neuroendocrine - immune system interactions and the role of psychological stress on immune competence · delineates factors that influence disease susceptibility, including nutrition · covers drug delivery systems, gene therapy, organ transplantation, arthritis treatment, and vaccination strategies · shows how to design clinical trials using immune modulating agents · and more!
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #2824476 in Books
* Published on: 1998-01-15
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* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 557 pages

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Discussing the systemic immune response in the contexts of health, disease, and therapy, this unique resource

Product Description

This book includes a survey of all RFID fundamentals and practices in the first part of the book while the second part focuses on UHF passive technology. This coverage of UHF technology and its components including tags, readers, and antennas is essential to commercial implementation in supply chain logistics and security.

Reaaders of this book should have an electrical engineering background but have not yet dealt with RFID. To this end, Dr. Dobkin will be very careful to illustrate all concepts and detail his explanations meticulously. In this way he will bring the reader along organically showing him/her what to expect, develop, and use while implementing an RFID system.

Chapter 1:Introduction
Chapter 2: History and Practice of RFID
Chapter 3: Radio Basics For UHF RFID
Chapter 4: UHF RFID Readers
Chapter 5: UHF RFID Tags
Chapter 6: Reader Antennas
Chapter 7: Tag Antennas
Chapter 8: UHF RFID Protocols
Afterword
Appendix 1: Radio Regulations
Appendix 2: Harmonic Functions
Appendix 3: Resistance, Impedance and Switching
Appendix 4: Reflection and Matching

*This technology is happening NOW at major chain stores such as Wal-Mart and Target
*RFID revenues are estimated to soar about $7 billion by 2008
*CD-ROM included with full color images, spreadsheets, an open-source example graphical user interface, and demo versions of commercial software
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #674623 in Books
* Published on: 2007-09-03
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 504 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Dr. Dobkin has been involved in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of communications devices, components, and systems for 28 years. He holds a BS from the California Institute of Technology, and MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University, all in Applied Physics. He is the author of two books and about 30 technical publications, and holds 7 US patents as inventor or co-inventor. He has given numerous talks and classes on radio-frequency identification in the US and Asia. He specializes in physical-layer issues: radios and signal generation, antennas, and signal propagation. Dr. Dobkin lives in Sunnyvale, CA, with his wife, Nina, children Nicholas and Amelia, and entirely too many toys and video game consoles.

Customer Reviews

improper terminology and so many errors1
There are so many errors at each chapter, so I can not follow up the contents. The author uses improper engineering nomenclatures.
But entire contents of this book satisfys me minimally.
The person who wants to buy this book should wait for s revised edition.

The RF in RFID, Daniel M. Dobkin5
Philip Karantzalis (Linear Technology, Milpitas, CA)
The RF in RFID is the best book for a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental issues of UHF RFID. In this very readable book, hardware and software engineers and users of UHF RFID systems will find reliable information on the RF interaction of tags and readers and UHF RFID protocols (it promotes mental health by providing the reader with a lucid explanation of the very dense UHF RFID protocols). This is a book that must be included in a comprehensive technical library (Five Stars).

Awesome, accessible, and technical5
If you have even a modest background in electrical engineering, Dobkins will take you on an entertaining but extremely informative ride into the engineering world that goes on behind RFID. Dobkins avoids the classical, boring, textbook-like approach that wants to turn everything into an abstract mathematical equation. Instead, he uses analogies, intuition, illustrations, animations, and yes, equations, to guide the reader's thought process and imagination. It's filled with fun facts and practical perspectives. It seems like every few pages I want to say out loud, "Wow, that's cool!"

The author's enthusiasm for the subject clearly comes across right from the introduction. Though the sentences may ramble, it us usually punctuated by some wit, humor, or factoid.

This book cuts across a lot of different topics, but primarily focuses on tags and readers. No topic goes too deep; nobody should confuse this with a PhD dissertation. But no topic is glossed over lightly, either. While this is not a "cook book" by any means, it definitely lays the foundation solidly on each topic.

What I enjoy so much about this book is that it is both technically solid, but still so easy to read. It's not "dumbed down" as it addresses the real engineering challenges head on, and leaves you with both an appreciation for the subject and a solid foundation (and lots of references) to go digging for more.

As inevitably happens, when trying to reduce something that is full of complexities and try to make it into something simpler, sometimes some important details get lost in the process. This is inevitable, and is not a problem per se. However, sometimes Dobkins gets carried away and forgets to remind the reader that the real world is actually a little bit more complicated than is presented. For example, the process of designing an RFID tag antenna, as outlined, doesn't quite work. Adding a matching circuit to the antenna, especially the inductive shunt, significantly changes behavior of the antenna, and means you have to go back and change the equivalent circuit of the antenna. Once you get past that, the basic process of modifying the matching circuit based on the principles outlined in the book does work. There are also a number of very minor errors within the book. Neither criticism is enough to detract from my 5-star rating.

Anyone who works with passive UHF RFID and wants to learn more about how this stuff works will definitely learn a lot from this book. If you've been to all the conferences, workshops, short courses, and looking for something more, this book is for you.

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VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise

Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers



The Most Complete, Practical, Solutions-Focused Guide to Running ESX Server 3



VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise is the definitive, real-world guide to planning, deploying, and managing today’s leading virtual infrastructure platform in mission-critical environments.



Drawing on his extensive experience consulting on large-scale ESX Server implementations, Edward L. Haletky brings together an unprecedented collection of tips, best practices, and field-tested solutions. More than any other author, he illuminates the real issues, tradeoffs, and pitfalls associated with ESX Server–and shows how to make the most of it in your unique environment.



Haletky covers the entire lifecycle: planning, installation, system monitoring, tuning, clustering, security, disaster recovery, and much more. Throughout, he supports his recommendations with examples from real-world deployments. He also provides detailed checklists for handling crucial issues such as caching, networking, storage, and hardware selection. Many of his techniques and practices apply to all current virtualization platforms, not just ESX Server.



This book will be an indispensable resource for every network architect, administrator, and IT professional who works with virtual servers. ESX Server newcomers will find the soup-to-nuts introduction they desperately need; experienced users will find an unparalleled source of field-tested answers and solutions.



In this book, you’ll learn how to:

• Identify key differences between ESX v3.x.y and ESX v2.5.x and their implications

• Perform a complete installation–with automated scripting techniques and samples

• Efficiently audit, monitor, and secure ESX Server

• Discover SAN storage pitfalls and solutions–with detailed guidance for specific SANs, switches, and fibre-channel adapters

• Understand ESX Server networking: NIC teaming, vSwitches, network lag, and troubleshooting

• Configure ESX Server via the Management User Interface, Virtual Center client, and command line interface

• Install Windows, Linux, and NetWare VMs: prepare media images, place configuration files, handle sizing and swap files, and more

• Use Dynamic Resource Load Balancing to consistently achieve utilization goals

• Implement effective backup and disaster recovery procedures



Edward L. Haletky owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., a consultancy specializing in virtualization, security, and networking. He has been rated by his peers on the VMware Discussion Forums as a “virtuoso” for his work in answering VMware security and configuration questions. Prior to establishing AstroArch, Haletky was a member of Hewlett-Packard’s Virtualization, Linux, and High-Performance Technical Computing teams. He holds a degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University.

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* Published on: 2008-01-08
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
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* 576 pages

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About the Author

Edward L. Haletky graduated from Purdue University with a degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. Since then, he has worked programming graphics and other lower-level libraries on various UNIX platforms. Edward recently left Hewlett-Packard, where he worked on the Virtualization, Linux, and High- Performance Technical Computing teams. He owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, and network consulting and development. Edward is very active (rated Virtuoso by his peers) on the VMware discussion forums providing answers to security and configuration questions.

Customer Reviews

Great Basic Book on ESX4
This book was useful both as a reference book to look up individual topics (I used it that way specifically for storage and network information) and to read as a guide/introduction to ESX. The author has a very in depth knowledge of the environment and the options available to anyone implementing the technology. It is laid out logically so that you can get the information you need subject (chapter) by subject.

I would say that the main drawback to the book is that sometimes it felt like I got right up the more advanced information that I was looking for and was informed that the options are available but had limited information to guide you in using/configuring or best practices for even choosing some of the more advanced settings.

I think overall this is an extremely useful book for someone just entering the ESX world, and for users who have not already been immersed in an ESX environment. Even for those people who are more advanced with the product it is a good added resource but may not fill all of your needs for more advanced features.

An excellent real-world guide5
VMWARE ESX SERVER IN THE ENTERPRISE: PLANNING AND SECURING VIRTUALIZATION SERVERS is an excellent real-world guide to planning and managing modern virtual infrastructure platforms, and is a pick for college-level libraries strong in computer networking studies. Many techniques and practices seemingly unique to the ESX server system apply to all current virtualization platforms, not just ESX - which lends this title value beyond its apparent specialty focus.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Excellent primer for integration 4
If you are looking at implementing virtualization in your hosting facility, I think the book is worth it's weight in gold. It discusses issues that every integrator is going to run into during requirement gathering, concept, design and implementation of projects involving client server architecture. This is a very hot topic which seems to be focus of every organization, and this books gives you the tools you need to discuss related issue intelligently. I would recommend it.

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Object-Oriented Design with Applications has long been the essential reference to object-oriented technology, which, in turn, has evolved to join the mainstream of industrial-strength software development. In this third edition--the first revision in 13 years--readers can learn to apply object-oriented methods using new paradigms such as Java, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0, and .NET.

The authors draw upon their rich and varied experience to offer improved methods for object development and numerous examples that tackle the complex problems faced by software engineers, including systems architecture, data acquisition, cryptoanalysis, control systems, and Web development. They illustrate essential concepts, explain the method, and show successful applications in a variety of fields. You'll also find pragmatic advice on a host of issues, including classification, implementation strategies, and cost-effective project management.

New to this new edition are

* An introduction to the new UML 2.0, from the notation's most fundamental and advanced elements with an emphasis on key changes
* New domains and contexts
* A greatly enhanced focus on modeling--as eagerly requested by readers--with five chapters that each delve into one phase of the overall development lifecycle.
* Fresh approaches to reasoning about complex systems
* An examination of the conceptual foundation of the widely misunderstood fundamental elements of the object model, such as abstraction, encapsulation, modularity, and hierarchy
* How to allocate the resources of a team of developers and mange the risks associated with developing complex software systems
* An appendix on object-oriented programming languages

This is the seminal text for anyone who wishes to use object-oriented technology to manage the complexity inherent in many kinds of systems.


Sidebars
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Section I: Concepts
Chapter 1: Complexity
Chapter 2: The Object Model
Chapter 3: Classes and Objects
Chapter 4: Classification
Section II: Method
Chapter 5: Notation
Chapter 6: Process
Chapter 7: Pragmatics
Chapter 8: System Architecture: Satellite-Based Navigation
Chapter 9: Control System: Traffic Management
Chapter 10: Artificial Intelligence: Cryptanalysis
Chapter 11: Data Acquisition: Weather Monitoring Station
Chapter 12: Web Application: Vacation Tracking System
Appendix A: Object-Oriented Programming Languages
Appendix B: Further Reading
Notes
Glossary
Classified Bibliography
Index
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Amazon.com Review
In this eagerly awaited second edition, Grady Booch draws upon the rich and varied results of those projects and offers improved methods for object development and a new, unified notation. With numerous examples implemented in C++, Booch illustrates essential concepts, explains the method, and shows successful applications in a variety of fields. Booch also gives pragmatic advice on a host of issues, including classification, implementation strategies, and cost-effective project management. A two-time winner of Software Development's coveted Jolt Cola Product Excellence Award!

From the Back Cover

The first edition of Object-Oriented Design with Applications was instrumental in making object-oriented technology a practical reality--hundreds of projects applied Booch's notation and process to complex problems in diverse domains. In this eagerly-awaited new edition, Grady Booch draws upon the rich and varied results of these projects to offer improved methods for object development and a new, unified notation. With numerous examples, all of which are now implemented in C++, Booch illustrates essential concepts, explains the method, and shows successful applications in a variety of fields. You'll also find pragmatic advice on a host of issues including classification, implementation strategies, and cost-effective project management.
Features of the New Edition:

* Presents a new, unified notation that incorporates the best ideas from Booch's notation and other widely-used methods
* Uses C++, rapidly emerging as a standard programming language for object development, in all programming examples and applications
* Includes new examples of real world projects, including a client/server architecture and an application framework
* Distinguishes between good and bad object-oriented analysis and design and shows how to evaluate architectural tradeoffs to manage complexity
* Includes extensive new detail on the process and pragmatics of object-oriented analysis and design

This is the essential reference for anyone who implements or manages object technologies, or who wishes to begin exploration of this important new paradigm.


0805353402B04062001

About the Author

Grady Booch is an IBM fellow and author of six best-selling books on object-oriented programming. He is world-reknowned as an originator of OO and founder of UML.

Robert A. Maksimchuk, as Research Director in the Unisys CTO Office, focuses on emerging modeling technologies to advance the strategic direction of the Unisys 3D-Visual Enterprise modeling framework. Bob brings an abundance of systems engineering, modeling, and object-oriented analysis and design expertise, in numerous industries, to this mission. He is the coauthor of the books UML for Mere Mortals and UML for Database Design, has written various articles, has traveled worldwide as a featured speaker in numerous technology forums, and led workshops and seminars on UML and object-oriented development.

Michael W. Engle is a principal member of the engineering staff with the Lockheed Martin Corporation. He has extensive technical and management experience across the complete system development lifecycle, from project initiation through deployment and support in a variety of application domains. As a systems architect, Mike employs object-oriented analysis nad design techniques in complex systems development.

Dr. Bobbi Young is a Director of Research for the Unisys Chief Technology Office. She has many years of experience in the IT industry working with commercial companies and Department of Defense contractors. Dr. Young has been a consultant mentoring in program management, enterprise architecture, systems engineering, and object-oriented analysis and design. Throughout her career, she has focused on system lifecycle processes and methodologies, and enterprise architecture.

Jim Conallen is a software engineer in IBM Rational's Model Driven Development Strategy team, where he is actively involved in applying the Object Management Group's (OMG) Model Driven Architecture (MDA) initiative to IBM Rational's model tooling.

Kelli A. Houston is a Consulting IT Specialist at IBM Rational. She is the method architect for IBM's internal method authoring method and is part of the team responsible for integrating IBM's methods.

Customer Reviews

Too many words3
This book's reputation as one of the bibles of OOAD is probably deserved because (to someone relatively new to it) the essentials seem to be thoroughly covered. It just seems too much like wading through muck to find them.

The problem begins at the very beginning; on the first pages of the preface. In describing changes between publication of the second edition and this third edition, the author lists "robots are cruising on the surface of Mars" and "Personal hovercraft are available." Tongue-in-cheek?

Unfortunately, no, unless it's firmly planted there. As the book continues, the reader all too often wants to start skimming as paragraph after paragraph, sometimes page after page, of non-essential prattle clouds the essentials. For journeyman designers and developers, sections on the topology of old-fashioned procedural languages, on the importance of documentation, task planning, release planning (twice!) and more may be frustrating drags on learning the essentials of thinking through a good design and taking it to the doorstep of implementation.

A highly-simplified greenhouse application is used for examples throughout the first part of the book, leaving too many more-common scenarios unexplored and occasionally trapping skimmers who have not captured every concept in the design of that application along the way.

Late chapters illustrate some concepts with (finally!) other applications including an all-important (for many of us) web application as well as applications for satellite tracking, data aquisition for a weather station, artificial intelligence, and a control system for traffic management. Interesting, but again wordy and by the time you get there you're exhausted!

I did learn from this book, but I'm still looking for The Book that efficiently teaches OOAD, and I've read four or five already. So far I've learned more from a couple of implementation-level books: Martin Fowler's superb book Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, and his UML Distilled. These have been very instructive in part because Fowler's style is lean and very clear, un-clouded by distracting non-essentials. I've just ordered Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development by Craig Larman. Fingers are crossed, maybe that will be The Book.

Nothings perfect. Irrespective, this should be on every OO programmers bookshelf.5
I have read few software engineering books that have been perfect. Some of this book is not perfect. The wisdom in the text, in the white space and beyond, is priceless. It is important to consider that Robert Martin, whose books on the theory and art of object oriented software development, amongst other subjects, are immense. Robert worked with Booch, and his greatness stands on the shoulders of Booch. You may not get everything from a first read of this book, and thats the beauty - it distills so many ideas in some many ways, that every time you read it, you get to share in the vision and deeper ideas behind the concepts.

This will always have a space on my shelf.

Quite simply, a 'most have' for any serious collection.5
College-level holdings strong in references for object-oriented programmers must have the 3rd updated edition of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with

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Expert Solutions and State-of-the-Art Code Examples

SOA Using Java™ Web Services is a hands-on guide to implementing Web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with today’s Java EE 5 and Java SE 6 platforms. Author Mark Hansen presents in explicit detail the information that enterprise developers and architects need to succeed, from best-practice design techniques to state-of-the-art code samples.

Hansen covers creating, deploying, and invoking Web services that can be composed into loosely coupled SOA applications. He begins by reviewing the “big picture,” including the challenges of Java-based SOA development and the limitations of traditional approaches. Next, he systematically introduces the latest Java Web Services (JWS) APIs and walks through creating Web services that integrate into a comprehensive SOA solution. Finally, he shows how application frameworks based on JWS can streamline the entire SOA development process and introduces one such framework: SOA-J.

The book

* Introduces practical techniques for managing the complexity of Web services and SOA, including best-practice design examples
* Offers hard-won insights into building effective SOA applications with Java Web Services
* Illuminates recent major JWS improvements–including two full chapters on JAX-WS 2.0
* Thoroughly explains SOA integration using WSDL, SOAP, Java/XML mapping, and JAXB 2.0 data binding
* Walks step by step through packaging and deploying Web services components on Java EE 5 with JSR-181 (WS-Metadata 2.0) and JSR-109
* Includes specific code solutions for many development issues, from publishing REST endpoints to consuming SOAP services with WSDL
* Presents a complete case study using the JWS APIs, together with an Ajax front end, to build a SOA application integrating Amazon, Yahoo Shopping, and eBay
* Contains hundreds of code samples–all tested with the GlassFish Java EE 5 reference implementation–that are downloadable from the companion Web site, http://soabook.com.


Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1: Service-Oriented Architecture with Java Web Services
Chapter 2: An Overview of Java Web Services
Chapter 3: Basic SOA Using REST
Chapter 4: The Role of WSDL, SOAP, and Java/XML Mapping in SOA
Chapter 5: The JAXB 2.0 Data Binding
Chapter 6: JAX-WS–Client-Side Development
Chapter 7: JAX-WS 2.0–Server-Side Development
Chapter 8: Packaging and Deployment of SOA Components (JSR-181 and JSR-109)
Chapter 9: SOAShopper: Integrating eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo! Shopping
Chapter 10: Ajax and Java Web Services
Chapter 11: WSDL-Centric Java Web Services with SOA-J
Appendix A: Java, XML, and Web Services Standards Used in This Book
Appendix B: Software Configuration Guide
Appendix C: Namespace
Prefixes
Glossary
References
Index

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* Amazon Sales Rank: #85507 in Books
* Published on: 2007-05-19
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
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* 608 pages

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About the Author

Mark Hansen, Ph.D., is a software developer, consultant, and entrepreneur. His company, Javector Software, provides consulting and software application development focused on Web services. Mark is also a content developer for Project GlassFish and has developed the open source SOA-J application framework for WSDL-centric Web services development.

Previously, Mark was a visiting scholar at MIT, researching applications for process and data integration using Web services technology. Prior to that, Mark was an executive vice president for Xpedior, Inc., a leading provider of e-business consulting services. He joined Xpedior when they acquired his consulting firm, Kinderhook Systems.

Mark founded Kinderhook in 1993 to develop custom Internet solutions for Fortune 1000 firms in the New York metropolitan area. Prior to founding Kinderhook Systems, Hansen was a founder and vice president of technology for QDB Solutions, Inc., a software firm providing tools for data integrity management in corporate data warehouses.

Mark's work has been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Information Week, Computer World, Database Management, Database Programming and Design, Business Communications Review, EAI Journal, and IntelligentEnterprise.

Mark earned a Ph.D. from the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, a master's degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Cornell University.

Mark and his wife, Lorraine, live in Scarsdale, New York, with their three children, Elizabeth, Eric, and Emily.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Java became a powerful development platform for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in 2006. Java EE 5, released in May 2006, significantly enhanced the power and usability of the Web Services capabilities on the application server. Then Java SE 6, released in December 2006, incorporated the majority of those capabilities into the standard edition of the Java programming language.

Because robust Web Services technology is the foundation for implementing SOA, Java now provides the tools modern enterprises require to integrate their Java applications into SOA infrastructures.

Of course, Java has had basic Web Services capabilities for some time. JAX-RPC 1.0 was released in June 2002. J2EE 1.4, finalized in November 2003, included JAX-RPC 1.1. So what is significant about the latest versions of the Java Web Services (JWS) APIs?

The answers are power and ease of use. Programmers will find it much easier to build enterprise-class applications with Web Services in Java EE 5 than in J2EE 1.4. Evidence of that is contained in Chapters 9 and 10, which describe an application I developed to integrate online shopping across eBay, Yahoo! Shopping, and Amazon. It’s a pure Java EE 5 application, called SOAShopper, that consumes REST and SOAP services from those shopping sites. SOAShopper also provides its own SOAP and REST endpoints for cross-platform search, and supports an Ajax front-end. SOAShopper would have been a struggle to develop using J2EE 1.4 and JAX-RPC. With the new Java Web Services standards, it was a pleasure to write.

This book focuses on the following standards comprising the new Java Web Services:

* JAX-WS 2.0 JSR 224—The Java API for XML-Based Web Services. The successor to JAX-RPC, it enables you to build and consume Web services with Java.
* JAXB 2.0 JSR 222—The Java Architecture for XML Binding. Tightly integrated with JAX-WS, the JAXB standard controls how Java objects are represented as XML.
* WS-Metadata JSR 181—Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform. WS-Metadata provides annotations that facilitate the flexible definition and deployment of Java Web Services.
* WSEE 1.2 JSR 109—Web Services for Java EE. WSEE defines the programming model and run-time behavior of Web Services in the Java EE container.

These standards contain a few big improvements and many little enhancements that add up to a significantly more powerful Web Services programming platform. New annotations, for example, make it easier to write Web Services applications. And the delegation, in JAX-WS 2.0 JSR 224, of the Java/XML binding to JAXB 2.0 JSR 222 greatly improves the usability of JAX-WS as compared with JAX-RPC. The deployment model has been greatly simplified by WS-Metadata 1.0 JSR 181 and an improved 1.2 release of WSEE JSR-109.

Chapters 1 and 2 review these JWS standards in detail and describe how they improve on the previous set of JWS standards. Chapters 3 through 10 focus on writing code. To really understand the power and ease of use of the new Java Web Services, you need to start writing code. And that is primarily what this book is about. Chapters 3 through 10 are packed with code examples showing you how to best take advantage of the powerful features, avoid some of the pitfalls, and work around some of the limitations.

Chapter 11 looks to the future and offers some ideas, along with a prototype implementation, for a WSDL-centric approach to creating Web Services that might further improve JWS as a platform for Service-Oriented Architecture.

I started writing this book in 2002, when JAX-RPC first appeared on the scene. I soon ran into trouble, though, because I wanted it to be a book for programmers and I had a hard time writing good sample code with JAX-RPC. Four years later, when I started playing around with beta versions of the GlassFish Java EE 5 application server, I noticed that things had significantly improved. It was now fun to program Web Services in Java and I recommitted myself to finishing this book.

The result is a book with lots of code showing you how to deal with SOAP, WSDL, and REST from inside the Java programming language. Hopefully this code, and the writing that goes with it, will help you master Java Web Services and enable you to start using Java as a powerful platform for SOA.
About This Book
An Unbiased Guide to Java Web Services for SOA

My primary goal in this book is to offer an unbiased guide to using the Java Web Services (JWS) standards for SOA. Of course, any author has a bias, and I admit to believing that the JWS standards are quite good. Otherwise, I would not have written this book.

Having admitted my bias, I also freely admit that JWS has weaknesses, particularly when it comes to the development approach known as Start from WSDL and Java. As you will see described in many different ways in this book, the JWS standards present a Java-centric approach to Web Services. That approach can be troublesome when you need to work with established SOA standards and map your Java application to existing XML Schema documents and WSDLs.

In such situations, it’s helpful to be able to take a WSDL-centric approach to Web Services development. In this area, JWS is less strong. Throughout the book, I point out those shortcomings, and offer strategies you can use to overcome them. Chapter 11 even offers a prototype framework, called SOA-J, that illustrates an alternative, WSDL-centric approach to Java Web Services.
Written for Java Developers and Architects

This is a book for people who are interested in code—primarily the developers who write systems and the architects who design them. There are a lot of coding examples you can download, install, and run.

Being a book for Java programmers working with Web Services, the discussion and examples provided within assume you have a working knowledge of Java and a basic understanding of XML and XML Schema. You don’t need to know a lot about SOAP or WSDL to dive in and start learning. However, as you go along in the book, you might want to browse through an introductory tutorial on WSDL and/or XML Schema if you need to firm up your grasp on some of the Web Services basics. Throughout the book, I offer references to Web sites and other books where you can brush up on background material.
Knowledge of J2SE 5.0 Is Assumed

This book assumes you have a basic understanding of J2SE 5.0—particularly the Java language extensions generics and annotations. If you are not familiar with generics or annotations, you can learn all you need to know from the free documentation and tutorials available at http://java.sun.com.

Don’t be intimidated by these topics. Generics and annotations are not hard to master—and you need to understand them if you are going to do Web Services with Java EE 5 and Java SE 6. The reason I have not written an introduction to

Product Description

This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the hugely successful The Art of Electronics. Widely accepted as the authoritative text and reference on electronic circuit design, both analog and digital, this book revolutionized the teaching of electronics by emphasizing the methods actually used by circuit designers -- a combination of some basic laws, rules of thumb, and a large bag of tricks. The result is a largely nonmathematical treatment that encourages circuit intuition, brainstorming, and simplified calculations of circuit values and performance. The new Art of Electronics retains the feeling of informality and easy access that helped make the first edition so successful and popular. It is an ideal first textbook on electronics for scientists and engineers and an indispensable reference for anyone, professional or amateur, who works with electronic circuits.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #8392 in Books
* Published on: 1989-07-28
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 1125 pages

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"Full of clever circuits and sharp insights, but with a surprising minimum of mathematics... The depth is genuine, as is the richness of examples, data and apt tricks."
Scientific American

"Far and away the finest book on the subject of electronics ... in the last decade. I cannot recommend this book highly enough to anyone whose research or experiments require some electronics."
Optical Engineering

"A delightful book...The circuits actually work, the schematics are all readable."
Review of Scientific Instruments

"This book is filled with a tremendous diversity of valuable information. More importantly, this book is a joy to read...It's not at all like studying--it's too much fun."
EDN (News Edition)

"This book provides a painless way to learn about electronic design. It is also a good read for those already experienced in electronics."
EDN (Magazine Edition)

"..it comes as close as any book we've seen to fulfilling the promise inherent in its title...written as though to educate the novice, but practicing engineers will encounter many useful tidbits they didn't know, hadn't thought about, or had long forgotten."
Analog Dialogue

"...a refreshingly simple, practical and comprehensive textbook on the subject of electronic circuit behavior and design...one of the few contemporary practical reference handbooks on electronic design basics."
Physics in Canada

"A lovely book, it covers a wealth of electronic topics in a very readable style."
Richard Morin, Sunexpert

"The second volume carries on une grande tradition as well as adding 400 new pages to the original (already massive) text. It is, without doubt, the book for the practical engineer. No cerebral theorizing here, no long sections of abstruse mathematical derivations; just page after page of solid empirical engineering. It is also light hearted and anecdotal, with some wonderful pages of bad ciruit 'howlers' that the authors have encountered."
John V. Hatfield, IJEEE

"...an excellent general electronic textbook."
Poptronics

"The best self-teaching book and reference book in electronics... The beauty and fun of electronics shows through."
Radio Communication

"Another electronics textbook that became an international best-seller... the book is renowned for presenting the techniques that circuit designers actually use."
IEEE Spectrum
Customer Reviews

NOT a Beginners Guide to Electronics3
I've always been particularly fascinated by electronics, circuits, and the whole realm in general, and I bought this book with the hopes of expanding that interest into a constructive hobby.

I have had basic experience with electronics in the past, and taken classes in Differential Equations, Calc 1-3, Linear Algebra, Physics, even some intro Electrical/Computer Engineering courses (all a long time ago though), but WOWee is this book complicated. It's 1300 pages and EVERY SINGLE PARAGRAPH is filled with mind crushing complexity.

Maybe it's all just above me, but from a complete beginners standpoint, this was far too difficult a first step.

I'll try to forge ahead (the author says don't get discouraged by the complex Math), but I have a feeling I will understand less and less the more I read.

Needs Complementation for use by (serious) EE's4
Buy this book, complement it with Tietze & Schenke's book and you got a very respectable library covering semiconductor circuits. The T&S book will give you the solid circuit background on the mathematical modeling of semiconductor devices as circuit building elements and that EE's should need to consider in serious projects. This book does very well on the "intuitiveness" side of subjects but clearly lacks in providing an in-depth calculation basis on the subjects it covers. This might be OK for most uses but if you are working on mission-critical circuitry or on circuitry that must perform in extreme conditions you'll certainly need to use more math that you'll be exposed in this text.

In a nutshell, if you start with this book and then read T&S on the same subject you'll build a very solid base in EE.

Great refresher and then some5
It is obvious to some that this book would contain material for the design of electronics but everyone who has any interest in the subject could just as easily learn electronics by giving this a read and performing some of the practice problems. I wish this was my text book in college. The book is a very easy read as the authors keep the material light at first and build on the knowledge gained from earlier chapters. I would recommend to anyone who might be interested in the subject.

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Revised to reflect all the current trends in the digital communications field, this all-inclusive guide delivers an outstanding introduction to the analysis and design of digital communication systems. Includes expert coverage of new topics: Turbocodes, Turboequalization, Antenna Arrays, Digital Cellular Systems, and Iterative Detection. Convenient, sequential organization begins with a look at the historyo and classification of channel models and builds from there.
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* Published on: 2000-08-15
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 1024 pages

Customer Reviews

The Reference for researchers in telecommunication5
This book is a reference for researchers in telecommunication. With more than 30 pages of references, this book is an excellent review of the principal publications in telecommunication.

This is not a book for students !

A lot of formulas, very little insight2
The author has, maybe, good knowledge of the material, but little contact with reality. A lot of formulas, piled up, offer practically no insight. Contrast this with the book of Sklar, "Digital Communciations". Proakis offers a fake "advanced" mathematical level, that might impress an ignorant beginning graduate student, but removes any chance of understanding the material because of the plethora of useless pictures, formulas and words.
The material of the book could have been presented in a quarter of the space. It is hard to imagine a poorer writing style.

worst textbook ever2
I took a graduate class at the University of Cincinnati and they used this book (it was round 2 for me as I had Communication Systems with his book that was co-authored by Salehi). Two classes + two Proakis books = brain hemorrhage. I will say that if you are mathematically strong doing well in these courses won't pose a problem. However, the amount of rereading needed to hammer in the concepts is overwhelming. It wouldn't have to be this way if he put in a lot of examples. Also, most of the problems are proofs or very complex and for that reason I noticed that neither of the professors that I had used problems from the book on exams. One exam was forced to become a take home as the results were so terrible and the other was a gram schmidt problem coupled with a small proof on bandpass signals. Some advice is in order. Follow these steps if you want to learn the material:

1.) Take and ace a Random Processes class. This will get you the background you need to blow through chapters 2 and 4 of Digital Communications by Proakis.

2.) Over break or during free time pick up the Communication Systems Engineering book and read through chapter 7 to hammer home chapter 5 of Digital Communications.

3.) Invest in a solution manual if you can find it. This way one can try ALL of the problems in the text and really learn the material.

As a final note, if you can master this course then there is absolutely no graduate class that will stand in your way. Any wireless or DSP class will seem like calc I after it.

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Covers the design fundamentals of cellular systems, including issues of frequency reuse, channel assignments, radio propagation, and both analog and digital modulation techniques.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #276652 in Books
* Published on: 2002-01-10
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 736 pages

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From the Back Cover

The indispensable guide to wireless communications—now fully revised and updated!

Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Second Edition is the definitive modern text for wireless communications technology and system design. Building on his classic first edition, Theodore S. Rappaport covers the fundamental issues impacting all wireless networks and reviews virtually every important new wireless standard and technological development, offering especially comprehensive coverage of the 3G systems and wireless local area networks (WLANs) that will transform communications in the coming years. Rappaport illustrates each key concept with practical examples, thoroughly explained and solved step by step. Coverage includes:

* An overview of key wireless technologies: voice, data, cordless, paging, fixed and mobile broadband wireless systems, and beyond
* Wireless system design fundamentals: channel assignment, handoffs, trunking efficiency, interference, frequency reuse, capacity planning, large-scale fading, and more
* Path loss, small-scale fading, multipath, reflection, diffraction, scattering, shadowing, spatial-temporal channel modeling, and microcell/indoor propagation
* Modulation, equalization, diversity, channel coding, and speech coding
* New wireless LAN technologies: IEEE 802.11a/b, HIPERLAN, BRAN, and other alternatives
* New 3G air interface standards, including W-CDMA, cdma2000, GPRS, UMTS, and EDGE
* Bluetooth wearable computers, fixed wireless and Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS), and other advanced technologies
* Updated glossary of abbreviations and acronyms, and a thorough list of references
* Dozens of new examples and end-of-chapter problems

Whether you're a communications/network professional, manager, researcher, or student, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Second Edition gives you an in-depth understanding of the state of the art in wireless technology—today's and tomorrow's.

About the Author

THEODORE S. RAPPAPORT is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas, and director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG.org). In 1990, he founded the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) at Virginia Tech, one of the first university research and educational programs for the wireless communications field. He is the editor or co-editor of four other books on the topic of wireless communications, based on his teaching and research activities at MPRG.

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Preface

The second edition of this text has been written to initiate the newcomer to wireless personal communications, one of the fastest growing fields in the engineering world. Technical concepts which are at the core of design, implementation, research, and invention of wireless communication systems are presented in an order that is conducive to understanding general concepts, as well as those specific to current and evolving wireless communication systems and standards. This text is based upon my experiences as an educator, researcher, technical trainer, and consultant, and continues to be modeled from an academic course first developed for electrical engineering students in 1990, when there were fewer than five million cellular subscribers worldwide. As we begin the 21st century, more than 600 million people, about 10% of the worldÕs population, pay a monthly subscription for wireless telephone service, and this figure will approach 50% by the end of the first decade of the 21st century.

This text continues to evolve, and has been modified and updated since its first edition, making it a useful book for practicing engineers, as well as for researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students. The text has been prepared to provide fundamental treatment about many practical and theoretical concepts that form the basis of wireless communications, and has been designed for easy but thorough treatment of vital material that all wireless practitioners must be comfortable with. I have tried to emphasize the technical concepts with worked example problems, and numerous, carefully crafted homework problems at the end of each chapter that are based on real-world industry issues. The second edition contains dozens of new homework problems and examples, as well as up-to-the minute technical details of the many emerging wireless standards throughout the world, making this book particularly useful for industry short-courses or state-of-the-art academic classroom use.

References to journal articles are used liberally throughout this text to enable the interested reader to delve into additional reading that is always required to master any field. To support newcomers to the wireless field, and at the request of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), I have also prepared a low-cost two volume compendium of many of the original journal articles that first taught the fundamentals that are now used throughout the wireless industryÑthis compendium series is a useful, but not required, supplement to this text. Whether you intend to use this book for individual study, or for classroom use, or for use as a handbook, this text has been written as a complete, self-contained teaching and reference book. The numerous examples and problems found throughout the text have been provided to help the reader solidify the material.

This book has been designed for the student or practicing engineer who is already familiar with technical concepts such as probability, communication theory, and basic electromagnetics. However, like the wireless communications industry itself, this book combines material from many different technical disciplines, so it is unlikely that any one person will have had introductory courses for all of the topics covered. To accommodate a wide range of backgrounds, important concepts throughout the text are developed from first principles, so that readers learn the foundations of wireless communications. This approach makes it possible to use this book as a handbook or as a useful teaching tool in a classroom setting.

The material and chapter sequence in this text have been adapted from an entry-level graduate course which I first taught in 1991 at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Chapter 1 demonstrates the historic evolution of the wireless communications industry, and the evolution of wireless systems from first generation analog to second generation (2G) digital systems. Chapter 1 also documents the rapid early growth of cellular radio throughout the world and provides a state of the industry in the mid 1990s. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the major modern wireless communication systems of the 21 st century, such as third generation (3G), Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), Local Multipoint Distribution Services (LMDS), and Bluetooth. Chapter 2 causes the reader to see how wireless networks are beginning to penetrate our daily lives for data and multimedia applications, as well as voice service. Chapter 3 covers fundamental cellular radio concepts such as frequency reuse and handoff, which are at the core of providing wireless communication service to subscribers on the move using limited radio spectrum. Chapter 3 also demonstrates the principal of trunking efficiency, and how trunking and interference issues between mobiles and base stations combine to affect the overall capacity of cellular systems. Chapter 4 presents radio propagation path loss, link-budgets, and log-normal shadowing, and describes different ways to model and predict the large-scale effects of radio propagation in many operating environments. Chapter 5 covers small-scale propagation effects such as fading, time delay spread, and Doppler spread, and describes how to measure and model the impact that signal bandwidth and motion have on the instantaneous received signal through the multipath channel. Radio wave propagation has historically been the most difficult problem to analyze and design for, since unlike a wired communication system which has a constant, stationary transmission channel (i.e., a wired path), radio channels are random and undergo shadowing and multipath fading, particularly when one of the terminals is in motion. New material in Chapter 5 also teaches a fundamental and new way of modeling spatial-temporal channels, which is vital for the development of smart antennas and position location systems.

Chapter 6 provides extensive coverage of the most common analog and digital modulation techniques used in wireless communications and demonstrates tradeoffs that must be made in selecting a modulation method. Issues such as receiver complexity, modulation and demodulation implementation, bit error rate analysis for fading channels, and spectral occupancy are presented. Channel coding, adaptive equalization, and antenna diversity concepts are presented in Chapter 7. In portable radio systems where people communicate while walking or driving, these methods may be used individually or in tandem to improve the quality (that is, reduce the bit error rate) of digital mobile radio communications in the presence of fading and noise.

Chapter 8 provides an introduction to speech coding. In the past decade, there has been remarkable progress in decreasing the needed data rate of high quality digitized speech, which enables wireless system designers to match end-user services to network architectures. Principles which have driven the development of adaptive pulse code modulation and linear predictive coding techniques are presented, and how these techniques are used to evaluate speech quality in existing and proposed cellular, cordless, and personal communication systems are discussed. Chapter 9 introduces time, frequency, and code division multiple access, as well as more recent multiple access techniques such as packet reservation and space division multiple access. Chapter 9 also describes how each access method can accommodate a large number of mobile users and demonstrates how multiple access impacts capacity and the network infrastructure of a cellular system. Chapter 10 describes networking considerations for wide area wireless communication systems, and presents practical networking approaches that are in use or have been proposed for future wireless systems. Chapter 11 unites all of the material from the first nine chapters by describing and comparing the major existing second generation (2G) cellular, cord-ess, and personal communication systems throughout the world. The tradeoffs made in the design and implementation of wireless personal communications systems are illuminated in this final chapter. The compilation of the major wireless standards makes Chapter 11 particularly useful as a single source of information for a wide range of wireless systems that are commercially deployed today.

Appendices which cover trunking theory, noise figure, noise calculations, and the Gaussian approximation for spread spectrum code division systems provide details for those interested in solving many practical wireless communications problems. The appendices also include hundreds of mathematical formulas and identities for general engineering work. I have attempted to place numerous useful items in the appendices, so that this text may be easily used by students or practicing engineers to solve a wide range of problems that may be outside the scope of the immediate text.

For industry use, Chapters 1Ð5, 9, and 11 will benefit working engineers in the cellular/PCS system design and radio frequency (RF) deployment, operations, and maintenance areas. Chapters 1, 2, 6Ð8, and 11 are tailored for modem designers and digital signal processing (DSP) engineers new to wireless. Chapters 1, 2, 10, and 11 should have broad appeal to network operators and managers, business and legal professionals, as well as working engineers.

To use this text at the undergraduate level, the instructor may wish to concentrate on Chapters 1Ð6, or Chapters 1Ð5, and 9, leaving the other chapters for treatment in a second semester undergraduate course or a graduate level course. Alternatively, traditional undergraduate courses on communications or network theory may find in Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 10 useful material that can be inserted easily into the standard curriculum. In using this text at the graduate level, I have been successful in covering most of the material in Chapters 1Ð6 and 10 during a standard half-year semester and Chapters 7Ð11 in a follow-on graduate course. In Chapters 2, 10, and 11, I have attempted to cover im...
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Good Refernce book3
Good reference book. It provids concepts and material important for graduate studies and industry. I recommand it.

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Principles of Digital Communication Systems & Computer Networks is designed as a textbook for digital communication systems, data communication and computer networks, and mobile computing. Part I deals with key topics such as information theory, transmission media, coding, error correction, multiplexing, multiple access, carrier modulation, PSTN, and radio communication. Part II goes on to cover the networking concepts, the ISO/OSI protocol architecture, Ethernet LAN, X.25 protocol, and TCP/IP protocol. Finally, Part III covers mobile computing, including radio paging, cellular mobile, GPS, CTI, unified messaging, and multimedia communication. Helpful summaries, lists of supplementary information, references, and exercises at the end of each chapter make the book a comprehensive resource for anyone pursuing a career in telecommunications and data communication.
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Dr. K.V. Prasad is currently the director of technology at Innovation Communications Systems Limited, and has been associated with the telecommunications industry for the past 16 years. He has published extensively in leading international and national journals and magazines in the areas of wireless communication, computer telephony integration, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. He also has authored and co-authored a number of programming guides.

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Rare combination4
This book is a rare combination of visual basic programming know how and practical interfacing and hardware knowledge. It's also fun to read.

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If you want top grades and thorough understanding of digital principles, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! It takes you step-by-step through the subject and gives you accompanying related problems with fully worked solutions. You also get additional problems to solve on your own, working at your own speed. (Answers at the back show you how you’re doing.) Famous for their clarity, wealth of illustrations and examples—and lack of dreary minutiae—Schaum’s Outlines have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. This guide will show you why!
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Master digital principles with Schaum's­­the high-performance study guide. It will help you cut study time, hone problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams! Students love Schaum's Outlines because they produce results. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students improve their test scores and final grades with these indispensable study guides. Get the edge on your classmates. Use Schaum's!

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Schaum's Outlines give you the information your teachers expect you to know in a handy and succinct format­­without overwhelming you with unnecessary details. You get a complete overview of the subject. Plus, you get plenty of practice exercises to test your skill. Compatible with any classroom text, Schaum's let you study at your own pace and reminds you of all the important facts you need to remember­­fast! And Schaum's are so complete, they're perfect for preparing for graduate or professional exams.

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Too many Schaum's in this space3
The book is fine for what it covers, but there are a number of similar books from Schaum's in this space. This makes it difficult to identify that book that covers the material I am most interested in.

This book seemed to be the most appropriate for my needs, but the majority of the book was not relevant to me while the book lack coverage of much of what I was hoping to be covered in the book.

Digital Design5
This book was very helpful durning my Digital Logic and Design course. It dosen't cover VHDL and I bought that seperate from Wiley but this book could replace most texts.

Good tutorial in digital logic and design for EE undergrads 4
This Schaum's outline is great for electrical engineering undergraduate students who are taking a first course in digital logic and digital circuit design. It starts out with the binary number system and the various binary codes and then moves on to logic gates. The theory that allows the simplifying of circuits and the substitution of one set of logic gates for another is also covered. The last 60% of the book involves an introduction to the various base devices used in logic design: flip-flops, counters, shift registers, memory devices, and adders among others. Each section shows how more sophisticated devices can be described in terms of the simpler devices already introduced. For students who want a more in-depth treatment of the synthesis and simplification of switching and logic circuits and more advanced Boolean algebra theory than this book provides, I suggest "Schaum's Outline of Boolean Algebra and Switching Circuits".
The only negative thing I have to say is that most of the problems in the outline involve analysis of circuits rather than circuit design, which is usually the main point of any digital electronics class, even a beginning one. However, I would still recommend it as a supplement.

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If you want to make better grades, improve your comprehension, and spend less time studying, this Schaum's Outline is for you! It's an easy-to-use study tool to help you master circuit analysis and ace your tests! Students love Schaum's Outlines! Each and every year, students purchase hundreds of thousands of the best study guides available anywhere. Students know that Schaum's delivers the goods­­in faster learning curves, better test scores, and higher grades!

If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you:

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* Find answers fast
* Study quickly and more effectively
* Get the big picture without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooks

Schaum's Outlines give you the information teachers expect you to know in a handy and succinct format­­without overwhelming you with unnecessary details. You get a complete overview of the subject­­and no distracting minutiae. Plus, you get plenty of practice exercises to test your skill. Compatible with any classroom text, Schaum's lets you study at your own pace and reminds you of all the important facts you need to remember­­fast! And Schaum's is so complete it's the perfect tool for preparing for graduate or professional exams!

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Great, but whats with the units??4
Going to an engineering school, we deal strickly with SI units. For the most part the book deals with them too. But often, it seems like the problems that would be good for me to try, are in inchs and mils and lbs and all the imperical crap.

Now i only gave it 1 star less. Considering most of the engineering world laughs at imperical crap, which i dont blame them.

Besides for that, the rest of the book is pretty good. The lack of explanations could be worked on. (not in the problems, but in the information prior to the questions). I luckily took a physics on electricity before i got this. Which helped me alot, especially when dealing with OhmMeters.


I would by this book if you want to great in your EE classes. But you may want to have someone who can explain some things. Or just do some demensional analysis to figure out why things are the way they are. And resistance and others like that will make sense.

Great Book5
If your having trouble with an EE Intro class - this is a good book to get

Great study tool4
Great explanations and fully worked out problems makes
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At last, here we have a book that provides a thoroughly readable introduction to fiber optics. It does not assume previous knowledge of the subject, nor a technical or mathematical background. It is suitable for engineers, technicians, students, hobbyists and installers, and covers the full range of fiber types.
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'a concise reference text to dip into, a must-have for systems designers, installation engineers, electronic engineers and anyone else who wants to gain a working knowledge of fiber optics with a minimum of maths. Every chapter ends up with some review questions.'
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Whether you are looking for a complete self-study course in fiber optics, a concise reference text to dip into or a course text that is readable and straightforward, John Crisp has the solution.
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'a concise reference text to dip into, a must-have for systems designers, installation engineers, electronic engineers and anyone else who wants to gain a working knowledge of fiber optics with a minimum of maths. Every chapter ends up with some review questions.'
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...meets the needs of systems designers, installation engineers, electronic engineers and anyone else who wants to gain a working knowledge of fiber optics with a minimum of maths.
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Whether you are looking for a complete self-study course in fiber optics, a concise reference text to dip into or a course text that is readable and straightforward, John Crisp has the solution.
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After a thorough introduction to the subject, ideas are developed so as to ensure that new knowledge is built on firm foundations, and with emphasis on the areas that have proved the most difficult. In keeping with this approach, new terms are never used without being properly introduced and the main terms used in specifications and catalogues are described and typical values quoted. Furthermore, when dealing with equipment such as cleavers, splicers, OTDRs etc., a representative example of each type is used, thus concentrating on the principles involved which can then be transferred to another model as appropriate. At the end of each chapter there are multiple-choice questions, the answers to which are at the back of the book and where calculations are involved, a fully worked answer will be provided. There is a useful glossary included at the end of the book.
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Good starter book3
I'm an engineer becoming familiar with fiberoptics. This book is very oriented towards the non-engineer. Much space is devoted to explanation of terms dB, and basic laws of physics.

The issue of multimode vs single mode is handled too cavalierly. The reader is left faced with an undesirable trait of fibers without sufficient explanation of the eigen values or transmission theory. This is good starter book only.

Good, not Great, Guide to Fiber Optics4
I recently purchased this book, "Fiber Optic Reference Guide" by Goff and "Understanding Fiber Optics" by Hecht. I knew nothing about fiber optics and had to get up to speed in a very tight time frame. This was my second favorite of the three, as it did a very good job of providing a basic explanation of the technology behind and implementation of fiber optics. This book was not bad in any way, there were merely some areas where Goff's book (which was the most useful of the three) were more up to date and the illustrations were more clear. Also, it did seem as if a few items within the book were a little dated.

Good for beginners in fiber optics5
This is an excellent book for someone just starting off in the fiber optics industry. Everything is explained in a completely understandable way, with lots of examples and quizes to to test your knowledge at the end of each chapter. I would especially recommend this for sales and marketing types who don't need to know as much as engineers, but need to be able to understand the basics.

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Addressing the trend in industry away from fully custom chip design to semi-custom technology, this book provides the first comprehensive introduction to Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs).
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In 1988 I began to teach full-custom VLSI design. In 1990 I started teaching ASIC design instead, because my students found it easier to get jobs in this field. I wrote a proposal to The National Science Foundation (NSF) to use electronic distribution of teaching material. Dick Lyon helped me with preparing the first few CD-ROMs at Apple, but Chuck Seitz, Lynn Conway, and others explained to me that I was facing a problem that Carver Mead and Lynn had experienced in trying to get the concept of multichip wafers adopted. It was not until the publication of the Mead-Conway text that people accepted this new idea. It was suggested that I must generate interest using a conventional format before people would use my material in a new one (CD-ROM or the Internet). In 1992 I stopped writing papers and began writing this book-a result of my experiments in computer-based education. I have nearly finished this book twice. The first time was a copy of my notes. The second time was just before the second edition of Weste and Eshragian was published-a hard act to follow. In order to finish in 1997 I had to stop updating and including new ideas and material and now this book consists of three parts: Chapters 1-8 are an introduction to ASICs, 9-14 cover ASIC logical design, and 15-17 cover the physical design of ASICs.

The book is intended for a wide audience. It may be used in an undergraduate or graduate course. It is also intended for those in industry who are involved with ASICs. Another function of this book is an "ASIC Encyclopedia," and therefore I have kept the background material needed to a minimum. The book makes extensive use of industrial tools and examples. The examples in Chapters 2 and 3 use tools and libraries from MicroSim (PSpice), Meta Software (HSPICE), Compass Design Automation (standard-cell and gate-array libraries), and Tanner Research (L-Edit). The programmable ASIC design examples in Chapter 4-8 use tools from Compass, Synopsys, Actel, Altera, and Xilinx. The examples in Chapter 9 (covering low-level design entry) used tools from Exemplar, MINC, AMD, UC Berkeley, Compass, Capilano, Mentor Graphics Corporation, and Cadence Design Automation. The VHDL examples in Chapter 10 were checked using QuickVHDL from Mentor, V-System Plus from Model Technology, and Scout from Compass. The Verilog examples in Chapter 11 were checked using Verilog-XL from Cadence, V-System Plus, and VeriWell from Wellspring Solutions. The logic synthesis examples in Chapter 12 were checked with the ASIC Synthesizer product family from Compass and tools from Mentor, Synopsys, and UC Berkeley. The simulation examples in Chapter 13 were checked with QuickVHDL, V-System/Plus, PSpice, Verilog-XL, DesignWorks from Capilano Computing, CompassSim, QSim, MixSim, and HSPICE. The test examples in Chapter 14 were checked using test software from Compass, Cadence, Mentor, Synopsys and Capilano's DesignWorks. The physical design examples in Chapters 15-17 were generated and tested using Preview, Gate Ensemble, and Cell Ensemble (Cadence) as well as ChipPlanner, ChipCompiler, and PathFinder (Compass). All these tools are installed at the University of Hawaii.

I wrote the text using FrameMaker. This allows me to project the text and figures using an LCD screen and an overhead projector. I used a succession of Apple Macintosh computers: a PowerBook 145, a 520, and lastly a 3400 with 144 MB of RAM, which made it possible for me to create updates to the index in just under one minute. Equations are "live" in FrameMaker. Thus, can be updated in a lecture and the new result displayed. The circuit layouts are color EPS files with enhanced B&W PICT previews created using L-Edit from Tanner Research. All of the Verilog and VHDL code examples, compiler and simulation input/output, and the layout CIF that were used in the final version are included as conditional (hidden) text in the FrameMaker document, which is approximately 200 MB and just over 6,000 pages (my original source material spans fourteen 560 MB optical disks). Software can operate on the hidden text, allowing, for example, a choice of simulators to run the HDL code live in class. I converted draft versions of the VHDL and Verilog LRMs and related standards to FrameMaker and built hypertext links to my text, but copyright problems will have to be solved before this type of material may be published. I drew all the figures using FreeHand. They are "layered" allowing complex drawings to be built-up slowly or animated by turning layers on or off. This is difficult to utilize in book form, but can be done live in the classroom.

A course based on FPGAs can use Chapter 1 and Chapters 4-8. A course using commercial semicustom ASIC design tools may use Chapters 1-2 or Chapters 1-3 and then skip to Chapter 9 if you use schematic entry, Chapter 10 (if you use VHDL), or Chapter 11 (if you use Verilog) together with Chapter 12. All classes can use Chapters 13 and 14. FPGA-based classes may skim Chapters 15-17, but classes in semicustom design should cover these chapters. The chapter dependencies-Y (X) means Chapter Y depends on X-are approximately: 1, 2(1), 3(2), 4(2), 5(4), 6(5), 7(6), 8(7), 9(2), 10(2), 11(2), 12(10 or 11), 13(2), 14(13), 15(2), 16(15), 17(16).

I used the following references to help me with the orthography of complex terms, style, and punctuation while writing: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition, 1996, Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, ISBN 0-87779-709-9, PE1628.M36; The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, ISBN 0-226-10389-7, Z253.U69; and Merriam-Webster's Standard American Style Manual, 1985, Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, ISBN 0-87779-133-3, PN147.W36. A particularly helpful book on technical writing is BUGS in Writing by Lyn DuprE, 1995, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-60019-6, PE1408.D85 (this book grew from Lyn DuprE's unpublished work, Style SomeX, which I used).

The bibliography at the end of each chapter provides alternative sources if you cannot find what you are looking for. I have included the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and Library of Congress (LOC) Call Number for books, and the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for journals (see the LOC information system, LOCIS, at loc.gov). I did not include references to material that I could not find myself (except where I have noted in the case of new or as yet unpublished books). The electronic references given in this text have (a last) access date of 4/19/97 and omit enclosing if the reference does not include spaces.

I receive a tremendous level of support and cooperation from industry in my work. I thank the following for help with this project: Cynthia Benn and Lyn DuprE for editing; Helen Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Susan London-Payne, Tracy Russ, and Juliet Silveri, all at Addison-Wesley; Matt Bowditch and Kim Arney at Argosy; Richard Lyon, Don North, William Rivard, Glen Stone, the managers of the Newton group, and many others at Apple Computer who provided financial support; Apple for providing support in the form of software and computers; Bill Becker, Fern Forcier, Donna Isidro, Mike Kliment, Paul McLellan, Tom Schaefer, Al Stein, Rich Talburt, Bill Walker, and others at Compass Design Automation and VLSI Technology for providing the opportunity for me to work on this book over many years and allowing me to test material inside these companies and on lecture tours they sponsored; Chuck Seitz at Caltech; Joseph Cavallaro, Bernie Chern, Jerry Dillion, Mike Foster, and Paul Hulina at the NSF; the NSF for financial support with a Presidential Young Investigator Award; Jim Rowson and Doug Fairbairn; Constantine Anagnostopolous, Pin Tschang and members of the ASIC design groups at Kodak for financial support; the disk-drive design group at Digital Equipment Corp. (Massachusetts), Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems for financial support; Ms. MOSIS and all of the staff at MOSIS who each have helped me at one point or another by providing silicon, technical support, and documentation; Bob Brodersen, Roger Howe, Randy Katz, and Ed Lee of UC Berkeley for help while I was visiting UCB; James Plummer of Stanford, for providing me with access to the Terman Engineering Library as a visiting scholar, as well as Abbas El Gamal and Paul Losleben, also at Stanford, for help on several occasions; Don Bouldin at University of Tennessee; Krzysztof Kozminski at MCNC for providing Uncle layout software; Gershom Kedem at Duke University for the public domain tools his group has written; Sue Drouin, JosE De Castro, and others at Mentor Graphics Corporation in Oregon for providing documentation and tools; Vahan Kasardjhan, Gail Grego, Michele Warthen, Steve Gardner, and others at the University Program at Cadence Design Automation in San Jose who helped with tools, documentation, and support; Karen Dorrington and the Cadence group in Massachusetts; Andy Haines, Tom Koppin, Sherri Mieth, Velma Miller, Robert Nales

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This comprehensive book on application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) describes the latest methods in VLSI-systems design. ASIC design, using commercial tools and pre-designed cell libraries, is the fastest, most cost-effective, and least error-prone method of IC design. As a consequence, ASICs and ASIC-design methods have become increasingly popular in industry for a wide range of applications.

The book covers both semicustom and programmable ASIC types. After describing the fundamentals of digital logic design and the physical features of each ASIC type, the book turns to ASIC logic design - design entry, logic synthesis, simulation, and test - and then to physical design - partitioning, floorplanning, placement, and routing. You will find here, in practical well-explained detail, everything you need to know to understand the design of an ASIC, and everything you must do to begin and to complete your own design.

Features

* Broad coverage includes, in one information-packed volume, cell-based ICs, gate arrays, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and complex programmable logic devices (PLDs).
* Examples throughout the book have been checked with a wide range of commercial tools to ensure their accuracy and utility.
* Separate chapters and appendixes on both Verilog and VHDL, including material from IEEE standards, serve as a complete reference for high-level, ASIC-design entry.

As in other landmark VLSI books published by Addison-Wesley - from Mead and Conway to Weste and Eshraghian - the author's teaching expertise and industry experience illuminate the presentation of useful design methods. Any engineer, manager, or student who is working with ASICs in a design project, or who is simply interested in knowing more about the different ASIC types and design styles, will find this book to be an invaluable resource, reference, and guide.

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About the Author

About Michael Smith

Michael Smith is both an experienced ASIC designer and a creative educator, with support from the National Science Foundation, and an array of Silicon Valley companies, including Viewlogic, VLSI Technology, Compass Design Automation, Xilinx, and Actel. Smith holds a B.A. from Cambridge University in the U.K. and a Ph.D. from Stanford. He is a recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award.


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Customer Reviews

Detailed and exhaustive but outdated4
As an ASIC design engineer, I liked the concept of this book and the breadth of the material covered. This book is broadly divided into two parts - one on FPGA's/PLD's and one on custom ASIC's (the author refers to all of these as ASIC's). The FPGA section covers programmable cells, i/o cells interconnects and design software for some devices of Xilinx, Altera and Actel. I found these sections informative but a bit boring. As you may expect from a nearly 10 year old book, most of the information is outdated. The ASIC's section consists of chapters on HDL's (you are better off reading a separate book on Verilog/VHDL), synthesis, simulation, test, floorplannng, placement and routing. I found these sections much more useful. The writing style is incoherent in many places and very informal throughout. This book is better suited for a reference to a practising engineer than for a college textbook.

This is the best ASIC book I have read.5
Fantastic book! Complete and very informative.

This book is well written5
I saw the review (November 17) below that dislikes the explanations, editing, and style - and have to say I disagree. I think this must be a student in the UCI class who screwed up the first homework. This book is well-written. Read the beginning of Chapter 2 here, online, and read the other reviews.

Product Description

No comparable reference offers as many easy-to-read definitions, abbreviations, acronyms, illustrations, schematics, diagrams, and conversion tables in electronics as this updated dictionary. Over 27,500 definitions and 1,000 illustrations including many new ones from robotics, artificial intelligence, and personal computing. You'll find coverage of the latest terms in lasers, TV, radio, IC technology, digital and analog electronics, audio and video, power supplies, fiber optic communications, and more. "... highly recommended..."NAmerican Reference Books Annual (on a previous edition)
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #1850387 in Books
* Published on: 1997-06-23
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 788 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
"... an excellent tool for electronics in the broadest sense... highly recommended... "-American Reference Books Annual. Continuing in the tradition of its bestselling predecessors, this updated dictionary of electronics terms coves a broader range of subjects in an easier-to-use format than any other source of its kind. No comparable reference offers such a vast range of definitions, abbreviations, acronyms, illustrations, schematics, diagrams, and conversion tables. More than 27,500 definitions-plus over 1,000 clear and functional illustrations-make the Seventh Edition the ultimate reference for technicians, hobbyists, and students. Many new terms and illustrations from robotics, artificial intelligence, and personal computing as they relate to electronics are included. Definitions spelled out in plain English with minimal technical jargon make the Dictionary accessible to beginning, intermediate, and advanced electronics professionals. You'll find coverage of the latest terminology in: lasers; television; radio; IC technology; digital and analog electronics; audio and video; power supplies; fiber optic communications; more! Existing definitions have been updated, obsolete material has been deleted, and all entries have been reviewed by an editorial review board to assure their accuracy. You can look for a better source of definitions in electronics... but you won't find one! "Very useful for day-to-day reference."-Technical Book Review.

About the Author
Stan Gibilisco is a professional technical writer who specializes in books on electronics and science topics. He is the author of The Encyclopedia of Electronics, The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Personal Computing, and The Illustrated Dictionary of Electronics, as well as over 20 other technical books. His published works have won numerous awards. The Encyclopedia of Electronics was chosen a "Best Reference Book of the 1980s" by the American Library Association, which also named his McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Personal Computing a "Best Reference of 1996." Stan Gibilisco’s Web sites are http://www.sciencewriter.com and http://members.aol.com/stangib.
Customer Reviews

A really sloppy update3
The latest additions (since Volume 4) are not as well-written or comprehensible as early ones, and the new diagrams were obviously done by someone who didn't have the foggiest idea what he was drawing. Many of them are unclear, and a surprising number are downright incorrect, which undermines confidence in all of them. This book sorely needed a good editor.

Clear and concise definitions of all terms.5
This is the best electronics dictionary I've ever run across. All of the definitions are clear and concise. There are many cross-references to other similar topics. Students and technicians will find this dictionary especially suited to their needs.

Concise and complete. I use it almost every day.5
This book is the most straightforward and comprehensive electronics dictionary I have found. The illustrations are simple, and are easy to interpret. I think some terms have illustrations when they aren't needed. I really appreciate the fact that the mathematics is not too complicated.

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* Amazon Sales Rank: #899382 in Books
* Published on: 1972-06
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 911 pages
Customer Reviews

supergreat book5
This book out of Columbia thinks about electronics and electronics engineering the way one should think. It is very physical but also mathematically imaginative.

supergreat book5
This book out of Columbia thinks about electronics and electronics engineering the way one should think. It is very physical but also mathematically imaginative.

Product Description

This guide to writing compelling, memorable short stories gives you all the essentials without wasted words. It tells you how and where to get ideas, how to establish and sustain excitement, how to create live, colorful characters, and how to plot, develop and bring home your story. It even includes exercises to help you perfect your story-telling skills. Full of tips and techniques that work, it makes an indispensable, reliable collaborator. You'll find it ideal whether you're studying alone or supplementing a creative or fiction writing course, conference or workshop.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #59010 in Books
* Published on: 1998-10-01
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 144 pages

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From the Back Cover

Great short stories the Schaum's way

Write the kinds of stories that keep readers glued to the page from start to finish. Quickly and simply, this concise guide gives you clear explanations, proven tips and techniques--plus dozens of examples from well-known authors--that show you how to come up with dynamic ideas, create living, colorful characters, and develop a unique plot.

This simulating guide will help you to start confidently, write freely, finish strongly, and make the most of your talent.
Look to Schaum's Quick Guides for

* Step-by-step guidance to help you move quickly through the essentials
* Do's and don'ts for avoiding common errors
* Clear explanations and practical how-to's
* Checklists and exercises for fast skill-building

About the Author
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide
Customer Reviews

good but not specific to short stories4
I wanted a book to show me the difference in technique between a short story and novel length. This book didn't help me. If you want an overall view of how to write, this book is simple and arranged well, but I'm not sure why the title empahsis is on short story.

Good Quick Reference Guide4
Schaum's guide is a good quick reference guide in the same sense a good gourmet cookbook may serve as a quick reference guide for getting a creative meal started. It is helpful in recalling key incredients and in just what portions and in what order they should be presented but as far as a guide to inspire, I must report this guide is NOT! Sadly, what is needed is a chapter entitled, "Ideas!!! And how to put form to them."
I like the book and it is a good quick reference guide and it is well worth the money. In many ways it's format is just right and it can be helpful just don't expect it to prepare you to be the next Hemmingway!

This book is a gem5
Over the past few months I have collected and read many books on creative writing with a slant towards the art and technique of fiction. All the while I write and read everyday improving my writing and improving my understanding. I can certainly recommend many books that I have recently read and studied and I must say that this book has a welcome place in my library. All of the books on fiction that I have are highly geared toward the novel. I had been struggling to write just one short story with the knowledge and experience imparted from other books. Things just didn't fit. I bought this book with three others not expecting anything special. I started with the book and a page and a half of short story. By the time I finished reading the first chapter, everything was so clear that I put the book down, and, with surprising success, finished my short story. It only took a matter of hours. I am a page and a half into another story told entirely from the omniscient point of view. I would also like to say that many of the books I have include a pre-amble or first section on the struggle of writing well. I have found many of these depressing even when I am shining with hope. The first chapter of this book approaches the subject of writers struggle with interspersed anecdotes of hope and quotes about the struggle and joy of writing from famous writers. If you buy this book for only one reason, let it be the first chapter. It is truly original. The rest of the book goes on to talk about many of the common elements in general creative writing that can be found in any collection. This book freed my style and showed me that I can use un-common technique to make an engaging story of less than 5,000 words.

If this is your first book you also want "Self-Editing For Writers of Fiction", and Sol Steins, "Stein on Writing".

Good luck with your endeavors.

Product Description

Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?

Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills.

This Schaum's Outline gives you

* Practice problems with full explanations that reinforce knowledge
* Coverage of the most up-to-date developments in your course field
* In-depth review of practices and applications

Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!

Schaum's Outlines-Problem Solved.

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* Amazon Sales Rank: #113902 in Books
* Published on: 2000-04-20
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 160 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Eugene Ehrlich, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of English Literature at Columbia University and has been a commentator for National Public Radio.

Customer Reviews

Not exactly what I expected but still really good.4
As with other Schaum's outlines, this one has lots of exercises for students to practice with. I was confused because I thought this book and Schaum's "theory and probs of english grammar" were different. In fact, they are the same (basically), but this one is simply an earlier edition... Perhaps the earliest??

Product Description

At last, a guide that explains points of French grammar and structure simply, then clarifies each with concrete examples. The examples use the language of real-life situations. This new edition also makes difficult topics, like the difference between mood and tense, even easier to understand. Numerous fill-in-the-blank and other exercises with delayed answers help cut down the time it takes readers to gain proficiency and confidence communicating in French.

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* Amazon Sales Rank: #25736 in Books
* Published on: 1999-06-28
* Original language: English, French
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 432 pages

Editorial Reviews

Language Notes
Text: English, French

About the Author
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide
Customer Reviews

A Great Source 5
Schaum' Outling is simply a perfect book which has everything inside including tons of exercises. Once you finish this book like I did you will see that other books are not that necessary to do because this one is enough. It is written every possible detail that you can imagine so it makes sure that you dont skip any exception. I suggest this book to everybody however I believe that you would better profit from this book if you know just a little bit basic french but thats all. Now I can write and say whatever I want and I can communicate and live easily in a francophone country. Thank you Schaum!

A must have for serious or semi serious French students!!5
I have used Schaum's Outline for Spanish, Italian and now French. They are the best. Not for the casual grammarian however.

Good review book3
This book is a good, comprehensive review of grammar for intermediate and advanced French speakers; without prior knowledge of French, it might be a little hard to understand.

Product Description

“If you get only one Java book, it should be Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days” –PC Magazine



In just 21 days, you can acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to develop three kinds of programs with Java: applications on your computer, servlets on a web server, and browser-launched Java Web Start applications.



No previous programming experience required. By following the 21 carefully organized lessons in this book, anyone can learn the basics of Java programming.



Learn at your own pace. You can work through each chapter sequentially to make sure you thoroughly understand all of the concepts and methodologies, or you can focus on specific lessons to learn the techniques that interest you most.



Test your knowledge. Each chapter ends with a Workshop section filled with questions, answers, and exercises for further study. There are even certification practice questions.



“Sams Teach Yourself Java is one of the best introductions to hands-on Java programming. If you buy one book on Java, this is the one to buy!” –Independent Web Review



* Completely revised, updated, and expanded to cover the latest features of Java 6
* Learn to develop standalone Java applications, web servlets, JavaServer Pages, and Java Web Start applications
* Easy-to-understand, practical examples clearly illustrate the fundamentals of Java programming
* Discover how Swing can help you quickly develop programs with a graphical user interface
* Find out about JDBC database programming, Internet client/server programming, and XML parsing with the open source XOM class library
* Covers new features of version 6 such as Java DB, the new relational database that is now a built-in
* part of Java



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Laura Lemay is one of the world’s most popular authors on Web development topics. She is the author of the bestselling Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML, as well as Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days.



CD-ROM includes:

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$44.99 USA / $55.99 CAN / £31.99 Net UK (inc. of VAT)

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* Amazon Sales Rank: #38211 in Books
* Published on: 2007-06-04
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 720 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Rogers Cadenhead is a web application developer and author. He has written 22 books on Internet-related topics, including Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours. He’s also a web publisher whose sites receive more than 24 million visits per year. He maintains this book’s official website at http://www.java21days.com and a personal weblog at http://www.cadenhead.org.



Laura Lemay is a technical writer and author. After spending six years writing software documentation for various computer companies in Silicon Valley, she decided that writing books would be much more fun. In her spare time, she collects computers, email addresses, interesting hair colors, and nonrunning motorcycles. She is also the perpetrator of Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week and Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days and a personal weblog at http://blog.lauralemay.com.







Customer Reviews

Confusing Appendix A JDK tutorial, and that is just the start!1
Appendix A "teaches" you how to get the JDK (java development kit) configured. It is a night mare for someone like me, a beginner. Here are the problems:

1) It wasn't mentioned in the "Running Programs in MS-DOS" that you are supposed to restart your computer after configuring the environment variables, the only place it was mentioned was for Experienced users, and I'm not one of them! Do you know how long it took me to figure that out! I had to reread Appendix A three times! And guess!

2) No where in Appendix A was it mentioned for the "inexperienced user" that you need to include a period for the class path. It was only mentioned for the "experienced user" which, I am not! I skipped over the "experienced user" instructions, because the book said, "For inexperienced MS-DOS users, the following section covers in detail how to set the PATH and CLASSPATH variables on a Windows system" --FALSE!!!!

3)The website tutorial for appendix a touches on the period issue, but not well enough. It has this ".;" which I thought was a typo because no where else was it mentioned. And the picture on the site showed the period after the semi-colon. What the heck?

Please GOD, don't let the rest of the book be this way!

The only thing I like about the book is the one day at a time approach. Any one else know of a good alternative to this book?

Java at your pace4
Likes:
A co-worker recommended the book to me and let me borrow it briefly. I found I liked the pacing in the book and the attempt by the authors to modularize each of the chapters making them correspond to days in a week. Due to other "life" distractions I found myself not necessarily able to keep up with the Java in 21 days but I still found it easier to progress through this book as opposed to other similar "[Insert language, application, software, etc., here] in X number of days" books. The examples are good and the authors get the book text to correspond well with the examples. I felt I understood the general concept of what the authors were trying to convey and I enjoyed working through the examples and exercises at my own pace. I felt that the modular chapters of the book would allow me to read through the chapters in most any sequence with the same ease as reading from beginning to end.

I found the website more convenient to use than the CD and the author seems to keep the book's online portion fairly current.

Dislikes:
The installation of Java instructions in Appendix A are aimed more at Windows and UNIX users but little or no mention is given to Mac OS X users. I would have preferred some assistance with upgrading Java on the Mac with help from the book or CD. I managed to get by however with Java 5 in Mac OS X. Some Mac users not familiar with installing/updating Java may encounter difficulty if they rely on the book and/or CD alone, particularly the CLASSPATH used in Mac OS X.

There are a couple of typos and errors that need to be fixed (i.e., for some odd reason the references in the book to signed/unsigned data-types are incorrect).

Overall:
I'm still going through the book and the things I like about the book, CD and website outweigh what I dislike about each of these items. Despite my dislikes I felt the book deserved 4 out of 5 starts (well 3.5 out of 5 but I can't give half a star).

This does NOT cover java 61
I am a certified programmer for java 1.4, and I bought this book on the title alone to get me up to date with the upgrades to version 6. What a disappointment to find that annotations are not covered at all, and generics only partially. Furthermore the collections framework is largely ignored. I looks like a java 1.3 book with some added examples to make it look like a version 6 book, but it is NOT. So if you need a book to study for the certification exam, this book is definitely NOT the one to get.
I found it a complete waste of money.

Product Description

Smartphone Operating System Concepts with Symbian OS uses Symbian OS as a vehicle to discuss operating system concepts as they are applied to mobile operating systems.It is this focus that makes this tutorial guide both invaluable and extremely relevant for today's student.In addition to presenting and discussing operating system concepts, this book also includes exercises that compare and contrast Symbian OS, Unix/Linux and Microsoft Windows. These assignments can be worked on in a classroom laboratory or in a student's own time.

The book is replete with examples (both conceptual and applied to handhelds) as well as:
* Summaries at the end of each chapter.
* Problems the students can do as homework.
* Experiment-oriented exercises and questions for students to complete on a handheld device
* A reading list, bibliography and a list of sources for handheld software

It also contains a series of on-line laboratories based on the software developed for Symbian OS devices. Students can perform these labs anywhere, and can use printing and e-mail facilities to construct lab write-ups and hand in assignments.

Students, for the first time, will be taught Symbian OS concepts so that they can start developing smartphone applications and become part of the mass-market revolution.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #991542 in Books
* Published on: 2007-06-11
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 354 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
Smartphone Operating System Concepts with Symbian OS uses Symbian OS as a vehicle to discuss operating system concepts as they are applied to mobile operating systems.It is this focus that makes this tutorial guide both invaluable and extremely relevant for today's student.In addition to presenting and discussing operating system concepts, this book also includes exercises that compare and contrast Symbian OS, Unix/Linux and Microsoft Windows. These assignments can be worked on in a classroom laboratory or in a student's own time.

The book is replete with examples (both conceptual and applied to handhelds) as well as:

* Summaries at the end of each chapter.
* Problems the students can do as homework.
* Experiment-oriented exercises and questions for students to complete on a handheld device
* A reading list, bibliography and a list of sources for handheld software

It also contains a series of on-line laboratories based on the software developed for Symbian OS devices. Students can perform these labs anywhere, and can use printing and e-mail facilities to construct lab write-ups and hand in assignments.

Students, for the first time, will be taught Symbian OS concepts so that they can start developing smartphone applications and become part of the mass-market revolution.

Product Description

Richard Harrison’s existing books are the bestsellers in the Symbian Press Portfolio. His latest book, co-written with Mark Shackman is the successor to "Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones" Volumes One and Two. Written in the same style as the two previous volumes, this is set to be another gem in the series.

The existing material from the volumes will be combined, with explanations and example code updated to reflect the introduction of Symbian OS v9. New and simplified example application will be introduced, which will be used throughout the book. The reference and theory section in particular sets this book apart from the competition and complements other books being proposed at this time.

Anyone looking for a thorough insight into Symbian OS C++ before moving onto specialize on particular Symbian OS phones need this book! It will not teach people how to program in C++, but it will reinforce the techniques behind developing applications in Symbian OS C++, and more.

This innovative new book covers Symbian OS fundamentals, core concepts and UI.

Key highlights include:

* A quick guide to Kernel
* Platform security
* Publishing Applications
* View Architecture
* Multi-User games

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* Amazon Sales Rank: #783985 in Books
* Published on: 2007-08-24
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 834 pages

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Review
"...close to a 'must read'..." (CVu, June 2003)

From the Back Cover
This latest edition provides you with the tools to become an effective Symbian OS developer and offers a deep understanding o the fundamental principles upon which Symbian OS is based. The text is also complemented with a suite of examples.

Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones Volume 3 includes:

* An introduction to Symbian C++, with descriptions of the basic building blocks and usage patters.
* Examples that are fully compatible with the latest Carbide.++ Symbain IDEs guide the reader through increasingly complex aspects of Symbian C++.
* The core concepts, resources and programming idioms that you need to create, test and publish a non-trivial GUI (graphical user interface) application.
* An introduction to some of the most significant Symbian OS system services: extensibility and the use of plug-ins and practical descriptions of the communications, multimedia and database services.
* Advice on the available range of graphics APIs and help to ensure that your application code is as device-independent as possible.

As it is targeted at the high-growth area where computers and mobile communications converge, Symbian OS gives you unparalleled opportunities in mass-market, enterprise and system programming.

If you've programmed in C++ at any level, and wish to develop software for mobile phones, this book is essential.

Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones Volume 3 draws on the experience of Symbian's own engineers to provide you with a thorough grounding in writing C++ applications for mobile phones using the latest version of Symbian OS and beyond.

About the Author
Mark Shackman is part of the Symbian Developer Network, which provides technical support to developers in the form of presentations, papers, books and tools. After the formation of Symbian, Mark joined the Connectivity Engineering group, with sole responsibility for authoring, producing, delivering and supporting the Connectivity SDK. He also wrote a chapter in Symbian's first book, Professional Symbian Programming.

Richard Harrison has developed Symbian OS software for 10 years. He is currently Technical Author at Symbian Ltd and is responsible for their system documentation. Richard is the lead author of the best-selling Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones, Volumes 1 and 2, also published by Wiley.
Customer Reviews

Good introduction but examples are outdated and index is useless3
My title says it all. The book starts relativly good by giving an useful introduction into Symbian Programming and introducing the basic programming paradigms. I also like the chapter about how to avoid common pitfalls and about descriptors.

After the example section the book goes to introduce the basic functionality of some libraries, but stays too much on the surface to deliver some advantage over reading the official documentation.

Some examples (for example in the file system services part) also seem to be outdated.

Not so much work seems to have gone into creating an index - it is overbloated with useless page citings. It seems as if somebody just took a number of keywords searched the document and added them directly to the index, even if the keyword at a page is not relevant at all. For example the keyword "UIDs" points to 19 different pages!

My recommendation: For an introduction take a look at S60 Programming - A Tutorial Guide by Wiley (same publisher). I found that to be organized better for beginners. If you are beyond that stage, use the internet forums or the Symbian documentation.

A good base for UIQ3
I ordered this book because I was new to Symbian/UIQ. I found it easier and more convenient to use than the SDK on-line doc.
I appreciate the battleship case-study used to illustrate the basic and intermediate Symbian/UIQ concepts. It helped me a great deal. This book also focuses on UIQ application framework. But surprisingly, I found it very scarce (as much as the SDK) on some aspects of the application framework: embedded application programming, command-line parameters processing.
However still good to have it close at hand for when I need a quick info.

Good Starting Point3
Having written software for 15 years for UNIX and Windows platforms, my move to the mobile space has been educational and humbling. Trying to learn to program for Symbian using the SDK and publicly available docs is daunting at best. The SDK docs are sparse, poorly written and provide a terrible search experience.

In contrast, Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones provides a solid foundation for learning to program this relatively new breed of devices. It covers a lot of material in a fair amount of depth and will help newbies to ascend the steep learning curve. Without this book, those new to Symbian programming will need to scour the SDK docs, trawl the newsgroups, and rely on kind souls from the UK to help with their inevitable programming questions.

I would have given this book 4 stars had it not been for several disappointing characteristics. First, there are too many authors. The writing style changes and information is repeated unnecessarily and in jarring ways. Second, the book sometimes repeats what's in the SDK docs, albeit in a consolidated form, without adding pragmatic insight and value. Third, it does not delve into some real-world, complex topics in any meaningful way. For example, the text quickly discusses messaging (SMS/MMS) but does not provide a digestible example of programmatically constructing an MMS. Fourth, it does not include Series 60 information, which is a shame given that the Series 60 is a very popular platform.

All in all, this is a good book that provides relevant, helpful information that will flatten the learning curve considerably.

Product Description

Concise, Accessible Coverage of All CCNA Objectives for Exam 640-801

Two Bonus Exams on the CD

Written by Todd Lammle, the Leading Authority on Cisco Internetworking

From the author of Sybex's best-selling CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide comes the streamlined tool you need to hone in on critical CCNA information: CCNA Fast Pass. The enclosed CD lets you practice, practice, practice so you can approach the exam with confidence.

Coverage includes:

* Designing Cisco internetworks
* Developing an access list
* Evaluating TCP/IP communication
* Configuring routers and switches
* Configuring IP addresses, subnet masks, and gateway addresses
* Performing LAN, VLAN, and WAN troubleshooting
* Understanding rules for packet control

Featured on the CD
The enclosed CD features two CCNA practice exams covering all exam objectives. You also get 100 electronic flashcards for PCs, Pocket PCs, and Palm handhelds, plus a glossary of key terms.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #677141 in Books
* Published on: 2005-11-11
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 384 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
Concise, Accessible Coverage of All CCNA Objectives for Exam 640-801

Two Bonus Exams on the CD

Written by Todd Lammle, the Leading Authority on Cisco Internetworking

From the author of Sybex's best-selling CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide comes the streamlined tool you need to hone in on critical CCNA

information: CCNA Fast Pass. The enclosed CD lets you practice, practice, practice so you can approach the exam with confidence.

Coverage includes:

* Designing Cisco internetworks
* Developing an access list
* Evaluating TCP/IP communication
* Configuring routers and switches
* Configuring IP addresses, subnet masks, and gateway addresses
* Performing LAN, VLAN, and WAN troubleshooting
* Understanding rules for packet control

Featured on the CD

The enclosed CD features two CCNA practice exams covering all exam objectives. You also get 100 electronic flashcards for PCs, Pocket PCs, and Palm handhelds, plus a glossary of key terms.

About the Author
Todd Lammle, CCNA, CCNP, has over twenty years of experience working with various LAN and WANs, and has been working on Cisco router networks since 1986. He is CEO and Chief Scientist of RouterSim, LLC and President of GlobalNet Training, Inc. Todd was voted "Best Study Guide Author" in the CertCities Readers' Choice Awards four years in a row.
Customer Reviews

CCNA Review5
I found this book to be well written, concise and to the point. The chapters are broken down in to easy to digest parts, which prepare you for end chapter tests which really tests what you've learned! I would recommend this book for anyone who is serious about passing the CCNA test, and if your really looking for a great resource, this book is it.

CCNA FAST PASS5
A must for a CCNA candidate. Great read 30 days prior to the examination.
Remember, this book will only help you to refresh your thoughts about the various topics covered in the CCNA exam.For one to pass the exam, extended reading is required/

NOT WORTH IT2
this book is an shortened offshoot of Todd's other book. It doesn't make you learn quicker either. Stay with the full version. And yes, alot of typos and errors................

Product Description

All-in-One is All You Need

Fully revised for the latest exam release, this authoritative volume offers thorough coverage of all the material on the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam. Written by a renowned security expert and CISSP, this guide features complete details on all 10 exam domains developed by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC²). Inside, you'll find learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice questions, and in-depth explanations. CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Fourth Edition will not only help you pass the test, but also be your essential on-the-job reference.

Covers all 10 subject areas on the exam:

* Access control
* Application security
* Business continuity and disaster recovery planning
* Cryptography
* Information security and risk management
* Legal, regulations, compliance, and investigations
* Operations security
* Physical (environmental) security
* Security architecture and design
* Telecommunications and network security

The CD-ROM features:

* Simulated exam with practice questions and answers
* Video training from the author
* Complete electronic book

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* Amazon Sales Rank: #844 in Books
* Published on: 2007-11-09
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 1145 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Shon Harris, CISSP, MCSE, is the president of Logical Security, an IT security consulting and training company. She is a former engineer in the Air Force's Information Warfare unit, an instructor, and the bestselling author of the previous three editions of this book. Shon has taught computer and information security to a wide range of clients, including RSA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the National Security Agency (NSA), and many more.

Customer Reviews

Faster Than a Speeding Bullet5
Wonderfully quick response and shipping time. Nice to have a request for any comments.

Overly wordy novel on CISSP3
This book is presented in novel format where huge paragraphs dominate.
People don't mentally store information in paragraph format; they store it in bullets or chunks of data so you first have to read the paragraph, then deduce the bullets for mental storage. It's weird but I think most books are written like this.

There are endless stories about security using sometimes inappropriate metaphors for security which don't always equate to the technology at hand.

Also, the chapters aren't laid out in the 10 Domains covered by the CISSP exam so you have to jump around to go through the domains.

By comparison, the Sybex CISSP book does a worse job because the chapters aren't even named in relation to what the ten CISSP domains are so you have to guess which chapter goes to which domain.

There is good use of graphics but there is a lot of extra information not on the exam so if you're looking for a concise technical review of CISSP exam material, look elsewhere.

PS the Shon Harris videos are as long and drawn out.

Wouldn't have passed without it!5
I can honestly say that if it weren't for this book I probably would not have passed my CISSP exam. Unlike other prep-guides, Shon engages the reader and keeps their attention. Also, this book doesn't read like a "read this book and pass an exam" book. It reads like a security book which just so happens to teach you the contents of the CISSP CBK. Good work and congrats on the 4th edition.

Product Description

Want to conquer two of the most difficult programmer certifications? The new edition of the best-selling Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide is the resource you need. Authors Philip Heller and Simon Roberts, developers of Sun's Programmer and Developer exams for the Java 2 Platform, give you everything you need to pass the exams the first time. This fully revised edition is updated for the changes in both exams, including coverage of new objectives for J2SE 1.4, a new emphasis on Swing and RMI, and information for tackling the new format of the Developer exam. The book is also enhanced with all-new features from Sybex's market-leading Study Guides, including Exam Essential sections to reinforce key subject areas and real-world scenario sidebars with sample programming assignments. The companion CD contains all the review questions from the book, a practice programmer's exam, and 150 random-test questions, including 100 new questions. The CD also includes a fully searchable electronic edition of the book.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #840873 in Books
* Published on: 2002-07
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 816 pages

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
Sun Java certification is no picnic, so a thorough study guide is essential. Look no further than The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide for formal, structured preparation. This bulky title offers comprehensive coverage of the objectives you must master to pass both the Programmer's Exam and the more demanding Developer's Exam.

Written by a trio of Sun Java course instructors, this book uses a straightforward bottom-up approach, starting with core syntax of Java and moving into progressively more graphical and sophisticated aspects of development. The familiar textbook style makes the title very suitable for self-paced study, even if you're not shooting for certification.

Each chapter includes a test, and the answers are explained. The authors use code snippets that are not overwhelming in length to keep their readers focused on the concept at hand. A large portion of the rear of the book is devoted to a Java 2 API reference, and the CD-ROM features a test limit to help you get psyched for the big exam. If you've got the time and dedication to master the material, this fine guide is all you need to get Sun's stamp of approval as a developer. --Stephen W. Plain

Topics covered: Java language fundamentals, objects and classes, event management, components, graphical user interfaces, database integration, thread management, and Remote Method Invocation (RMI).

From the Back Cover
Here's the book you need to prepare for the Programmer's and Developer's exams. This Study Guide provides:

In-depth coverage of every exam objective for the revised Programmer's Exam for J2SE 1.4 Hundreds of challenging practice questions, in the book and on the CD Leading-edge exam preparation software

Authoritative coverage of all Programmer's exam objectives, including: Language fundamentals Operators and assignments Modifiers Converting and casting Flow control, exceptions, and assertions Objects and classes Threads The java.lang and java.util packages Input and output

In-depth coverage of the topics covered in the Developer's exam, including: Swing components and events Layout managers Enhancing and extending the database Writing the network protocol Designing the user interface GUI prototyping Building the database server Connecting the client and server Preparing the upload

Featured on the CD The enclosed CD is packed with vital preparation tools and materials, including a custom testing engine for the Java Programmer's exam. Loaded with hundreds of practice questions, it lets you test yourself by chapter or by randomized testing, and also provides you with explanations for each question. You'll also find a complete practice Programmer's exam and a fully searchable electronic version of the book.

About the Author
Philip Heller is a technical author, novelist, public speaker, and consultant. He has been instrumental in the creation and maintenance of the Java Programmer and Developer exams. His popular seminars on certification have been delivered internationally. He is the co-author of several books on Java, all available from Sybex. Simon Roberts is a Sun Microsystems programmer, an instructor, an authority on the Java language, and the key player in the development of the entire Java certification program.
Customer Reviews

Mistakes, Mistakes, and more Mistakes1
I find it hard to believe that a study guide this error ridden was ever released given the gross errors my study group has found. We feel a lack of confidence in the material presented in this text and in the authors in particular. We have to verify everything presented in this text and believe nothing to be true without doing so. This is not a good way to study for a certification exam. We need a trusted and reliable reference, not a work of fiction.

We are not at all pleased with the material covered. Nor are we pleased with the mock exams which we all agree are too easy.

In all I would suggest that you not purchase this book and wait instead for the next release of Kathy Sierra & Bert Bates book.

Sample exams on CD are buggy and wrong2
The exams on the accompanying CD are crap.
The engine is buggy (sometime you cannot see the whole text) and answers are wrong. E.g.
Q: "Which access modifier will allow access only within the class and package?"
A: "friendly"

Maybe friendly, but definitely wrong.

This was all I needed!4
I studied this book carefully twice through and passed the exam easily. It may not be perfect, but it was all I needed.

Product Description

All the ONT 642-845 commands in one compact, portable resource



Preparing for the CCNP® certification? Working as a network professional? Here are all the CCNP-level commands for the ONT exam you need in one condensed, portable resource. The CCNP ONT Portable Command Guide is filled with valuable, easy-to-access information and is portable enough for use whether you’re in the server room or the equipment closet.



This book will help you memorize commands and concepts as you work to pass the CCNP ONT exam (642-845). The guide summarizes all CCNP certification-level Cisco IOS® Software commands, keywords, command arguments, and associated prompts, providing you with tips and examples of how to apply the commands to real-world scenarios. Sample configurations throughout the book provide you with a better understanding of how these commands are used in simple network designs.



The topics in this portable command guide cover how to do the following:

* Describe Cisco VoIP implementations
* Describe QoS considerations
* Describe DiffServ QoS implementations
* Implement AutoQoS
* Implement WLAN security and management Scott Empson is currently the assistant program chair of the bachelor of applied information systems technology degree program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, teaching Cisco® routing, switching, and network design courses in certificate, diploma, and applied degree programs at the post-secondary level.



Hans Roth is an instructor in the electrical/electronic engineering technology department at Red River College in Winnipeg, Canada.



* Access all CCNP ONT commands–use as a quick, offline resource for research and solutions
* Logical “how-to” topic groupings provide one-stop research
* Great for review before taking the CCNP ONT certification exam
* Compact size makes it easy to carry with you, wherever you go
* “Create Your Own Journal” section with blank, lined pages allows you to personalize the book for your needs



This book is part of the Cisco Press® Certification Self-Study Product Family, which offers readers a self-paced study routine for Cisco certification exams. Titles in the Cisco Press Certification Self-Study Product Family are part of a recommended learning program from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized

Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press.



Category: Cisco Press–Cisco Certification

Covers: CCNP ONT Certification 642-845



$24.99 USA / $26.99 CAN



Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #88625 in Books
* Published on: 2008-03-30
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 168 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Scott Empson is the Associate Chair of the Bachelor of Applied Information Systems Technology degree program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he teaches Cisco routing, switching, and network design courses in a variety of different programs–certificate, diploma, and applied degree–at the postsecondary level. Scott is also the Program Coordinator of the Cisco Networking Academy Program at NAIT, a Regional Academy covering Central and Northern Alberta. He has earned three undergraduate degrees: a bachelor of arts, with a major in English; a bachelor of education, again with a major in English/language arts; and a bachelor of applied information systems technology, with a major in network management. He currently holds several industry certifications, including CCNP, CCAI, and Network+. Prior to instructing at NAIT, he was a junior/senior high school English/language arts/computer science teacher at different schools throughout Northern Alberta. Scott lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with his wife, Trina, and two children, Zachariah and Shaelyn, where he enjoys reading and studying the martial art of Taekwon-Do.



Hans Roth is an instructor in the Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technology department at Red River College in Winnipeg, Canada. Hans has been with the college for 11 years and teaches in the both the Electronic Technology and IT areas. He has been with the Cisco Academy Program since 2000 teaching CCNP curricula. Previous to teaching, Hans spent 15 years in R&D/product development designing microcontroller-based control systems for consumer products as well as for the automotive and agricultural industries.



Customer Reviews

VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!5
Are you preparing for the CCNP ONT exam? If you are, then this book is for you. Authors Scott Empson and Hans Roth, have done an outstanding job of including some handy hints and tips along the way to hopefully make life a bit easier for you in preparing for the exam.

Empson and Roth, begin by giving you an overview of the two different design models from Cisco: The Service-Oriented Network Architecture and the Enterprise Composite Network Model. Then, the authors describe how to set up Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express by using CLI, how to use the CLI for CME auto-configuration, how to install IP Communicator, and how to change codecs by using the CLI. They also describe how to configure QoS through the CLI, by using Modular QoS CLI for implementing QoS by using AutoQoS, and implementing and monitoring QoS by using Cisco Security Device Manager. The authors continue by describing how to use Network-Based Application Recognition for classification. Next, they discuss topics such as the phases of AutoQoS, locations where AutoQoS can be implemented, router considerations and prerequisites, and deploying AutoQoS on both routers and IOS-based Catalyst switches. Finally, the authors discuss how to configure wireless LAN QoS by using CLI, configuring encryption and authentication on lightweight access points, and working with Cisco wireless control systems.

This most excellent book is the fourth and final volume in a four-volume set that attempts to summarize the commands and concepts that you need to know in order to pass one of the CCNP certification exams. Perhaps more importantly, this great book acts like a small notebook that can be carried around, which contains little nuggets of information.

Product Description

CCNP ISCW Portable Command Guide



All the ISCW 642-825 commands in one compact, portable resource



Scott Empson

Hans Roth



Preparing for the CCNP certification? Working as a network professional? Here are all the CCNP-level commands for the ISCW exam you need in one condensed, portable resource. The CCNP ISCW Portable Command Guide is filled with valuable, easy-to-access information and is portable enough for use whether you’re in the server room or the equipment closet.



This book can help you memorize commands and concepts as you work to pass the CCNP ISCW exam (642-825). The guide summarizes all CCNP certification-level Cisco IOS Software commands, keywords, command arguments, and associated prompts, providing you with tips and examples of how to apply the commands to real-world scenarios. Sample configurations throughout the book provide you with a better understanding of how these commands are used in simple network designs.



The topics in this portable command guide cover how to do the following:

* Implement basic teleworker services
* Implement Frame-Mode MPLS
* Implement a site-to-site IPsec VPN
* Describe network security strategies
* Implement Cisco Device Hardening
* Implement Cisco IOS Firewall
* Describe and configure Cisco IOS IPS Scott Empson is currently the assistant program chair of the bachelor of applied information systems technology degree program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, teaching Cisco routing, switching, and network design courses in certificate, diploma, and applied degree programs at the post-secondary level.



Hans Roth is an instructor in the electrical/electronic engineering technology department at Red River College in Winnipeg, Canada.



* Access all CCNP ISCW commands–use as a quick, offline resource for research and solutions
* Logical “how-to” topic groupings provide one-stop research
* Great for review before taking the CCNP ISCW certification exam
* Compact size makes it easy to carry with you, wherever you go
* “Create your own journal” section with blank, lined pages allows you to personalize the book for your needs



This book is part of the Cisco Press Certification Self-Study Product Family, which offers readers a self-paced study routine for Cisco certification exams. Titles in the Cisco Press Certification Self-Study Product Family are part of a recommended learning program from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized

Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press.



Category: Cisco Press–Cisco Certification

Covers: CCNP ISCW Certification 642-825



Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #526935 in Books
* Published on: 2008-03-22
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 192 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Scott Empson is the associate chair of the bachelor of applied information systems technology degree program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton,

Alberta, Canada, where he teaches Cisco routing, switching, and network design courses in a variety of different programs–certificate, diploma, and applied degree–at the postsecondary

level. Scott is also the program coordinator of the Cisco Networking Academy at NAIT, a Regional Academy covering central and northern Alberta. He has earned three undergraduate degrees: a bachelor of arts, with a major in English; a bachelor of education, again with a major in English/language arts; and a bachelor of applied information systems technology, with a major in network management. He currently holds several industry certifications, including CCNP, CCAI, and Network+. Prior to instructing at NAIT, he was a junior/senior high school English/language arts/computer science teacher at different schools throughout northern Alberta. Scott lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with his wife Trina and two children Zachariah and Shaelyn, where he enjoys reading and training in the martial art of tae kwon do.



Hans Roth is an instructor in the Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technology department at Red River College in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Hans has been with the college for

11 years and teaches in both the electronic technology and IT areas. He has been with the Cisco Networking Academy since 2000, teaching CCNP curricula. Previous to teaching

Hans spent 15 years in R&D/product development designing microcontroller-based control systems for consumer products as well as for the automotive and agricultural industries.



Customer Reviews

VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENED!!5
Are you preparing for the CCNP ISCW exam? If you are, then this book is for you. Authors Scott Empson and Hans Roth, have done an outstanding job of summarizing the commands and concepts that you need to understand to pass the Implementing Secure Converged WANs exam.

Empson and Roth, begin by giving you an overview of the two different design models from Cisco: The Service-Oriented Network Architecture and the Enterprise Composite Network Model. Then, the authors describe how to provision a cable modem, and how to configure a Cisco router as a PPPoE client. They also describe how to configure MPLS on a router, including configuring MPLS on a frame mode interface, and configuring MTU size in label switching. The authors continue by describing how to configure, verify and troubleshoot IPsec VLANs. Next, they discuss topics such as locking down routers with AutoSecure. Finally, the authors discuss how to configure a basic firewall from the CLI and SDM; and how to configure inspection rules as part of an Advanced Firewall.

To verify the commands used in this most excellent book, many different devices were used. Perhaps more importantly, these devices are adequate for someone to continue their studies beyond the CCNP level.

Product Description

In Genetics, Third Edition, students learn the underlying concepts and applications of genetics. They will also find up-to-date coverage of molecular genetics and the molecular biology of eucaryotic cells and their viruses. Numerous illustrations, 209 problems solved step-by-step, 1,000 additional practice problems, and 433 review questions make key points memorable and prepare readers for all kinds of typical genetics exams.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #1388676 in Books
* Published on: 1991-02-01
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 453 pages

Editorial review
An up-to-date guide to basic concepts and applications in geneticsfrom classic inheritance and population genetics to cutting-edge molecular genetics and biotechnology
Provides 450 detailed problems, with step-by-step solutions, along with expert techniques for solving difficult problems, considerably expanding the reader’s range of experience with various kinds of problems

This updated and expanded fourth edition of the best-selling solved-problem study guide, features new chapters on gene structure and regulation and mitochondrial inheritance, as well as new material on special topics, such as developmental genetics, bacterial genetics, viruses, transposable elements, cancer, and more Customer Reviews

Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Genetics4
an excellent way to prepare for exams in Genetics, BICD 100 @ ucsd. I highly recommend this book.

Product Description

In Genetics, Third Edition, students learn the underlying concepts and applications of genetics. They will also find up-to-date coverage of molecular genetics and the molecular biology of eucaryotic cells and their viruses. Numerous illustrations, 209 problems solved step-by-step, 1,000 additional practice problems, and 433 review questions make key points memorable and prepare readers for all kinds of typical genetics exams.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #1388676 in Books
* Published on: 1991-02-01
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 453 pages

Editorial review
An up-to-date guide to basic concepts and applications in geneticsfrom classic inheritance and population genetics to cutting-edge molecular genetics and biotechnology
Provides 450 detailed problems, with step-by-step solutions, along with expert techniques for solving difficult problems, considerably expanding the reader’s range of experience with various kinds of problems

This updated and expanded fourth edition of the best-selling solved-problem study guide, features new chapters on gene structure and regulation and mitochondrial inheritance, as well as new material on special topics, such as developmental genetics, bacterial genetics, viruses, transposable elements, cancer, and more Customer Reviews

Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Genetics4
an excellent way to prepare for exams in Genetics, BICD 100 @ ucsd. I highly recommend this book.

Product Description

Building on the firm foundations of the past 22 editions, this is a very thorough revision of this classic textbook. All sections have been revised and updated; in particular the chapters on trauma, orthopaedic surgery, plastic surgery, neurosurgery and maxillofacial surgery have been extensively rewritten under the direction of the new co-editor Professor Christopher Bulstrode. New chapters have been added on the role of radiology in surgical practice, principles of laproscopic surgery, clinical trials and statistical research, and surgical ethics. The book's high standing reputation for unambiguous advice makes it the forst point of reference for many undergraduate and postgraduate students. This comprehensive text will also be of use to practicing surgeons.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #6193818 in Books
* Published on: 1995-08-01
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 1056 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
R.C.G. Russell, Consultant Surgeon, Middlesex Hospital, London and Chair of the Court of Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. N.S. Williams, Professor of Surgery and Director of The Academic Department of Surgery, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London. C.J.K. Bulstrode, Professor and Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education, University of Oxford.
Customer Reviews

the best 'medium sized' surgical text5
This is an example par excellence of the 'medium sized' text-book: about 1000 pages (or 1.5 inches across the spine), providing a comprehensive coverage without overwhelming detail. It is written in classical British text-book style: clear prose, concise description, and some classical illustrations. A nice touch is the font size variations: smaller for details that can readily be skipped without interfering with the flow of the book. A shame this is not used more often.
I suspect for most medical students the detail is excessive, but an outstanding book for the beginning resident or for those in other disciplines wanting more than the broad brush strokes of the surgical approach to conditions major and minor.

well done!5
Good book, all my cousins are buying it.

core knowledge4
A classic, been out there for as long as our teachers can remember or more, why? cause it gives u the most important points in nearly every thing, it picks a flower from every different flowerbed. it wont expand much on the types of coils used for cerebral aneurysms for example, but will tell you what u need to know about the main title, how to diagnose and general principles of management. it is not for seniors who will most certainly find it deficient. It is a good choice for medical students and surgical residents in there very beginnings but not beyond. This edition has been printed in style, if u have ever passed over the previous ones u could realize the differences.
still though it needs more on managing trauma, and more details regarding laparoscopy. And probably a larger chapter on operative techniques in general. The images are generally good although some of them date back to really old editions.
It really depends on what u want from a book, thats all.

Product Description

Building on the firm foundations of the past 22 editions, this is a very thorough revision of this classic textbook. All sections have been revised and updated; in particular the chapters on trauma, orthopaedic surgery, plastic surgery, neurosurgery and maxillofacial surgery have been extensively rewritten under the direction of the new co-editor Professor Christopher Bulstrode. New chapters have been added on the role of radiology in surgical practice, principles of laproscopic surgery, clinical trials and statistical research, and surgical ethics. The book's high standing reputation for unambiguous advice makes it the forst point of reference for many undergraduate and postgraduate students. This comprehensive text will also be of use to practicing surgeons.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #6193818 in Books
* Published on: 1995-08-01
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 1056 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
R.C.G. Russell, Consultant Surgeon, Middlesex Hospital, London and Chair of the Court of Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. N.S. Williams, Professor of Surgery and Director of The Academic Department of Surgery, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London. C.J.K. Bulstrode, Professor and Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education, University of Oxford.
Customer Reviews

the best 'medium sized' surgical text5
This is an example par excellence of the 'medium sized' text-book: about 1000 pages (or 1.5 inches across the spine), providing a comprehensive coverage without overwhelming detail. It is written in classical British text-book style: clear prose, concise description, and some classical illustrations. A nice touch is the font size variations: smaller for details that can readily be skipped without interfering with the flow of the book. A shame this is not used more often.
I suspect for most medical students the detail is excessive, but an outstanding book for the beginning resident or for those in other disciplines wanting more than the broad brush strokes of the surgical approach to conditions major and minor.

well done!5
Good book, all my cousins are buying it.

core knowledge4
A classic, been out there for as long as our teachers can remember or more, why? cause it gives u the most important points in nearly every thing, it picks a flower from every different flowerbed. it wont expand much on the types of coils used for cerebral aneurysms for example, but will tell you what u need to know about the main title, how to diagnose and general principles of management. it is not for seniors who will most certainly find it deficient. It is a good choice for medical students and surgical residents in there very beginnings but not beyond. This edition has been printed in style, if u have ever passed over the previous ones u could realize the differences.
still though it needs more on managing trauma, and more details regarding laparoscopy. And probably a larger chapter on operative techniques in general. The images are generally good although some of them date back to really old editions.
It really depends on what u want from a book, thats all.

Product Description

“In this updated and expanded edition of her excellent telecommunications primer, Lili explains in just the right detail everything you need to know to become fluent in this most important and fascinating industry. Besides including a satisfying amount of expert technical detail, the book also discusses equally crucial aspects of how communications technology affects society, culture, and politics. Electronic communications is changing the world for the better; learn from Lili’s expertise how you, too, can participate in the revolution.”
—Steve Riley, senior security strategist, Microsoft Corporation

“The book you hold in your hand is a rarity. In more than thirty years of teaching, administration, and research in telecommunications, I have never found a single book that could serve these diverse areas. The search is over. Telecommunications Essentials is best-of-breed in telecommunications publishing and represents the most thorough, comprehensive, and forward-looking resource to date. Both student and practitioner alike will find the unique blend of introductory and advanced material a ‘one-stop-shop.’ If it was a movie, this book would receive two thumbs up!”
—Dr. Art St. George, manager of advanced technologies, University of New Mexico

“Telecommunications Essentials should be on the shelf of every professional working in voice and data networking. It is the first place I go when I need to look up something that I am unsure of or when I encounter a new or unfamiliar term. I have been using Telecommunications Essentials now for two years as the course text for business technology students taking Introduction to Telecommunications. My course covers the entire book and the students end up with a practical knowledge base of the components, technologies, and connectivity that make today’s networks work. This new edition is most welcome since it includes new advances in the areas of fiber optics, wireless, Voice over IP, and broadband technologies that have emerged since the publication of the first edition. This new edition will replace my well-worn copy of my first edition of Telecommunications Essentials, which has served me well so far.”
—Robert Hudyma, professor of business, Ryerson University

“This is an excellent reference book on telecommunications. It’s up-to-date on the latest technology, it’s comprehensive, and most of all, it’s easy to read and understand. Lili has the rare ability to explain very complex subjects well. If you need a good reference book on telecommunications, I would start with this.”
—To Chee Eng, research director, communications, Gartner

“Lillian makes telecoms fun.”
—Ni Quiaque Lai, CFO, Hong Kong Broadband Network Ltd.

“Goleniewski’s Telecommunications Essentials sets the stage by discussing forward-looking applications that are made possible by advances in telecommunications technology, including embedded devices, intelligent wearables, intelligent robot squads, and many others. This initial discussion is quite motivating for students and makes them eager to learn about various networking technologies, which are covered quite well in the rest of the book. The first edition (published in 2003) was already a great book for teaching telecommunications essentials, and it is clear that the second edition brings us up to the present and is a remarkable treatment of the topic.”
—Dr. Lundy Lewis, chair of the Department of Information Technology, Southern New Hampshire University

“The book covers not just the fundamentals of telecommunications, but it easily guides the readers through the wide variety of technical details of next-generation network services, converged network architectures, and technologies. Lillian’s elegant and clear style of presentation makes the book an excellent reference for system developers as well as telecommunications system designers to understand the current and emerging technologies that support business applications.”
—Dr. Tibro Gyires, professor, Illinois State University, School of Information Technology

“When Lili published her first edition of Telecommunications Essentials, I was a consultant in the communications field. Her guide was the only one I used to keep current. Now I’m in different field altogether but I need to understand this highly extensive field. Telecommunications Essentials is comprehensive, user-friendly, insightful, and fun. It’s the only resource to have if you want to know telecom.”
—Dave Feldman, consul, trade and investment, British Embassy

“After four decades of working in the computer and telecommunications fields, and more than twenty years of teaching graduate-level courses in telecommunications and network management at four universities, I finally have a book that meets the needs of students who are working to gain an in-depth and comprehensive grasp of an ever-changing field. Lili Goleniewski wrote that book. Her second edition is an outstanding contribution to the field and will be the best teaching aid I have ever had. If you teach you should use this book. If you want to really learn about telecommunications and data networks you should insist that your school adopt the book as a text.”
—Michael Erbschloe, consultant, author, and educator

“Telecommunications is not just about the legacy telephone network or the evolving wireless networks or the rapidly expanding Internet. It is about all of these and much more. It requires years of expertise in this fascinating field, combined with skillful writing ability, to develop a book that presents in an interesting and insightful manner the multifaceted disciplines of telecommunications. Lillian Goleniewski has accomplished this immense task with great skill in her book Telecommunications Essentials. Beginning students and professionals alike will benefit from this book. It can serve as an excellent reference book for telecommunications executives and business professionals who need to understand the basics of telecommunications and the workings of next-generation networks. Congratulations to the author on a task well done!”
—Dr. Seshadri Mohan, chair and professor, Systems Engineering Department, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

“Telecommunications Essentials is a brilliant book for a broad and in-depth picture of the nitty-gritty aspects of telecommunications. Lili has a way of explaining complicated topics very well. It is a must-have book for any person who works in the IT world.”
—Lino Alberts, department manager technology operations, RBTT Bank Aruba N.V.

“A truly amazing book. A ‘must-have’ for anyone who wants to know the basics of telecommunication, how it works, and where the industry is heading. This book is excellent for all audiences—from novice to expert. Lili has successfully broken down the complexity of telecommunication so it can be easily understood.”
—Mohd Radzi b. Mohd Yusoff, senior manager, MSC Technology Centre, Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

“Telecommication Essentials describes the most technical elements of the subject in layperson’s terms, while remaining engaging for those with greater understanding. In providing the link between the most complex of telecommunications technology and its most simple applications, both now and in the future, Telecommunication Essentials is the most readable book on the subject both for newcomers and for ‘old hands.’ Lili exudes enthusiasm throughout, providing a vision for the future that draws the reader in.”
—Neil Juggins, head of research, Evolution Securities China

“One of the great challenges facing those responsible for setting public policy or regulation associated with the converging technologies of telecommunications, IT, and media is that before the ‘ink is dry’ on their pronouncements, advancements in the underlying science and technology has often made the ‘new’ policy, laws, and regulation out-of-date or irrelevant. While Lili does not claim to predict the future in her second edition of Telecommunications Essentials, she takes what is to many ‘Rocket Science’ and delivers it up in ways that those responsible for protecting the ‘public good’ and maintaining more competitive communications marketplaces can easily understand. Lili is one of the few telecommunications educators out there, catering to a diverse a reader base, who has been keeping up with Moore’s Law and what it really means in the real world of telecommunications. She continues to maintain her technological neutrality, never attempting to ‘sell’ a particular flavor-of-the-year with regard to who is the ‘best’ at delivering ‘what’ to ‘whom,’ nor falling into a mumbo-jumbo mantra of which national regulatory authority has invented the best-of-the-best new legal regime, something sorely needed by those needing a bias free technology primer.”
—Thom Ramsey, partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (Brussels & Washington, D.C) and former Deputy United States Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. Department of State

“As a journalist who writes about the Defense Department’s most complicated space programs, I need to have a very clear and current handle on the technology and the operational aspects of the equipment and platforms. I a...

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* Amazon Sales Rank: #22555 in Books
* Published on: 2006-10-20
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 928 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Author
Telecommunications Essentials is the complete global reference on telecommunications technologies, applications, and networks. The book is based on the globally acclaimed LIDO Telecommunications Essentials(R) seminar series, which I’ve had the pleasure of conducting, globally, since 1984.

This book is designed to allow a non-technical professional, as well as technical professional wishing to expand their range of knowledge, to develop an understanding of the language and concepts comprising telecommunications, while also providing enough technical depth to develop a sound knowledge of the key technologies and network infrastructures. Its organization reflects the logical progression of telecommunications developments and solutions, allowing one to develop a historical basis for appreciating the evolution of telecommunications, while developing an enthusiasm for realizing the magnitude of the revolution yet to come.

My academic background in clinical psychology, combined with 21 years of practical experience in telecommunications consulting and education, allows me to deliver information about complex technologies with a distinct human touch, one designed not just to teach you the principles of telecommunications, but to also engage your interest, and inspire your desire to learn more.

Realizing that the study of telecom involves lifelong learning, Telecommunications Essentials is supported with an online learning environment, including LIDO Telecom WebCentral(R), a knowledge portal offering access to over 6,000 web resources, as well as the Telecom Essentials Learning Center, where you can take online quizzes, engage in or create discussion groups, access an online glossary, and find over 1,000 recommendations on selected books, magazines and websites, all organized according to the chapters of the book.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Telecommunications Essentials

“In Telecommunications Essentials, Goleniewski guides us through the ever-changing world of telecommunications with much sense and a great deal of style. Her wide ranging and in-depth study into this complex field is superbly researched and written. Its emphasis on learning and technology is thought-provoking and never fails to be relevant to the field today. It is essential reading.”
—Chris Barclay, Director, Strategy & Planni

Product Description

Demystifying the technology of telecommunications: a guided tour for the non-engineer

This book provides an easy-to-understand introduction to the complex technical world of telecommunications. From bandwidth to data transfer protocol to PSTN, ISDN, PCS, or ATM-widely respected telecommunications expert and author Roger L. Freeman explains it all. He walks the reader through a vast array of current topics, providing an encyclopedic overview of all branches of telecommunications-telephony, data communications, enterprise networks, television transmission, wireless systems, and cellular/personal communication services (PCS). Written for the layperson as well as newcomers to the field, this primer:
* Assumes no mathematical or technical know-how on the part of the reader
* Introduces all topics from the ground up
* Clearly defines all terms, illustrating them with tangible examples
* Features review questions at the end of each chapter, designed to test understanding and reinforce comprehension
* Includes one hundred figures to highlight the text
* Reviews, in three appendices, the most rudimentary of mathematical and electrical concepts, as well as decibels and their applications Fundamentals of Telecommunications allows sales, marketing, and management personnel in the telecommunications industry to better understand the various technical and operational issues that come up in the course of their work. It also gives investors and financiers a basic reference to draw upon when dealing with clients in this rapidly evolving market.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #1225868 in Books
* Published on: 1999-02-05
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 676 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
"…presents a very comprehensive treatment on the basic concepts of telecommunication without advanced mathematics." (IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, November/December 2006)

"...the concepts learned from this book will be a strong foundation for advanced studies in telecommunications and business data communication." (Computing Reviews.com, January 13, 2006)

From the Back Cover
Demystifying the technology of telecommunications: a guided tour for the non-engineer

This book provides an easy-to-understand introduction to the complex technical world of telecommunications. From bandwidth to data transfer protocol to PSTN, ISDN, PCS, or ATM—widely respected telecommunications expert and author Roger L. Freeman explains it all. He walks the reader through a vast array of current topics, providing an encyclopedic overview of all branches of telecommunications—telephony, data communications, enterprise networks, television transmission, wireless systems, and cellular/personal communication services (PCS). Written for the layperson as well as newcomers to the field, this primer:

* Assumes no mathematical or technical know-how on the part of the reader
* Introduces all topics from the ground up
* Clearly defines all terms, illustrating them with tangible examples
* Features review questions at the end of each chapter, designed to test understanding and reinforce comprehension
* Includes one hundred figures to highlight the text
* Reviews, in three appendices, the most rudimentary of mathematical and electrical concepts, as well as decibels and their applications Fundamentals of Telecommunications allows sales, marketing, and management personnel in the telecommunications industry to better understand the various technical and operational issues that come up in the course of their work. It also gives investors and financiers a basic reference to draw upon when dealing with clients in this rapidly evolving market.

About the Author
ROGER L. FREEMAN is founder and principal of Roger Freeman Associates, independent consultants in telecommunications, specializing in system engineering in Hispanic America. In the course of more than 45 years of experience in telecommunications operations, maintenance, and engineering, he has served as principal engineer for advanced system planning at Raytheon Company, technical manager of ITT Marine, Europe, and regional planning expert for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Mr. Freeman is the author of Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering, Second Edition; Radio System Design for Telecommunications, Second Edition; Practical Data Communications; Telecommunication System Engineering, Third Edition and Telecommunications Transmission Handbook, Fourth Edition-all published by Wiley. A senior life member of the IEEE, Roger Freeman has lectured at numerous professional conferences and published widely in international telecommunications journals. He gives telecommunications seminars at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Customer Reviews

EXCELLENT INTERMEDIATE TELECOMMUNICATIONS BOOK 5
Chances are that you already have this book in your IT library. But, you probably don't have the 2nd edition of the book. Author Roger L. Freeman has done an outstanding job of presenting telecommunications as the world's must lucrative industry.

Freeman begins by showing you--the telecommunication novice, some very basic elements of telecommunications. Next, the author becomes more definitive in several key areas like the quality of service and telecommunications impairments. Then, he provides the reader with a firm foundation of the analog voice channel. Freeman continues by reminding the reader that there are two quite different PCM standards. In addition, the author next concentrates on the network design of the PSTN, how it is structured and why. He also introduces the essential aspects for the design of long-distance links. Freeman next continues with information coding or how you can express your alphabet and numeric symbols electrically without ambiguity. Next, the author confines the reader to various data networks that may be employed in government and industry. He then covers two types of WANs: TCP/IP protocol family; and, frame relay and some of its variants. Freeman then provides the reader with a clear understanding of how a TV works, as well as, describe how television is transmitted and distributed over long distances. Then, the author describes conventional CATV, and the concept of supertrunks including HFC (hybrid fiber coax) systems. Next, he provides a brief overview of both SONET and SDH standards. Finally, Freeman finishes up by treating network management as a whole consisting of its multimedia parts: voice, image, and data, which includes facsimile, telemetry, and CAD/CAM.

With the preceding in mind, the author has done an excellent job crafting the book with the newcomer in mind. At the end of the day, you'll know whether you'll be gong back to basics or advance to the future of telecommunications.

Unbelievable5
This book is completely accurate, thorough, and readable. I keep it on my desk as a reference, and find it invaluable. I know the price is steep, but it's worth it!

Readable AND Technically Accurate5
As an instructor it's great to find a book that is technically sound yet readable by non-engineers! So many so called readable books are shot full of technical holes and errors, but not this one. Yes, I know there is a lot of techie talk, but it is readable and the equations require only simple high school algebra. After you finish reading this book you won't make rookie mistakes. It's a book you can bet your job on!

Product Description

Network Essentials guides consist of 100 3-5 page articles, heavily illustrated, covering the basic concepts, technologies, standards and protocols – everything you need to master the field. Wireless A to Z covers the key concepts and technologies of wireless and mobile communications. From traditional topics like CDMA and signal hand-offs to cutting edge mobile applications like WiFi and Bluetooth, this is a precise – and concise – quick look up reference to the industry
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #1074820 in Books
* Published on: 2002-12-03
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 541 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
Muller, an industry consultant, has written a clear, thorough guide that explains wireless technology in approximately 100 entries. The entries are devoted to subjects that include laser transmission, specialized mobile radio, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, CDMA, and fraud management systems. The volume's intended audience is business owners who are using or preparing to use wireless, although Muller doesn't tone down the technical details that are necessary to fully understand each topic. The entries consist of a substantial text, several pages in length, with b&w photos, diagrams when needed, a summary, and cross-references to related topics. A full list of acronyms is included. (Sci-Tech Book News )

From the Back Cover
100 IN-DEPTH ARTICLES CLARIFY TODAY’S MOST IMPORTANT WIRELESS TOPICS!

THE MOST PRECISE, CONCISE, AND AUTHORITATIVE WIRELESS REFERENCE AVAILABLE!

In today’s information-rich environment, a business operating without a cogent wireless communications strategy is destined for failure. That’s why, if designing, maintaining, or upgrading wireless and mobile communications systems is part of your work, you need the detailed insight and professional guidance of Wireless A to Z.

Easy to read, easy to use!

Written by a noted industry expert in an easy-to-read style, Wireless A to Z delivers nearly 100 in-depth articles covering a broad range of wireless issues. From CDMA, 3G, GPRS, to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, this book provides you with everything you need to keep the benefits of wireless working hard for your business, telecommuters, and mobile employees.

Plus, the book’s wealth of informative illustrations ensures you’ll come away with a firm understanding of the complete gamut of wireless topics. With wireless and mobile communications continuing to develop in scope, diversity, and acceptance, this book is the one-stop resource no telecommunications professional should work without!

Including:
* 3G Wireless Services
* Bluetooth
* Data Compression
* Fixed Wireless Access
* Global Positioning System
* Infrared Networking
* Laser Transmission
* Paging
* Personal Digital Assistants
* Short Messaging Service
* Spectrum Planning
* Wireless Equivalent Privacy
* Wireless LANs/WiFi
* Wireless Local Loop
* Wireless Messaging

About the Author
Nathan J. Muller is an independent consultant specializing in telecommunications technology marketing, research, and education. A resident of Sterling, VA, he serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Network Management, the Advisory Board of the American Alliance of Service Providers, and the Advisory Panel of Faulkner Information Services. Among his 21 books, he is the author of The Desktop Encyclopedia of Telecommunications and Network Manager’s Handbook.
Customer Reviews

The "surprise" essential book of mine5
To tell the truth this book was ordered on side of the others. But when I had begun to read the explanations was a huge suprise. The Morse codes together with the bluetooth and the GPRS technology! The definition of one Hertz together with the LAN security! That was not a small challange, but the authors solved it and made a really professional reference guide for those who wants quick but real, easy undestandable explanations for their lack of wireless knowledge. Special thanks as a non native english speaker for the acronyms

Product Description

Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers details the features of Photoshop CS3 and is geared toward print facilities, mainly screen printers and similar types of graphic artists. Features important to these industries include creating a personalized interface, acquiring images from clients' disks, acquiring images by scanning existing artwork, importing and exporting images, and creating new images. Color separations also play a big role in these industries, as does printing on specialty films and papers. The Photoshop interface is also discussed, including the toolbox, the palettes, the menu and options bars, and the Adobe Bridge. Additionally, the finer points of printing are detailed, including adding and using crop marks, registration marks, and captions, and producing four-color separations.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #137780 in Books
* Published on: 2007-11-25
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 579 pages Customer Reviews

OK but...3
This is a decent book but I think it could have been better. First of all its not in color therefore when working the tutorials it is difficult to see changes. Second the tutorials seem to skip steps which can leavie a newbie like me lost. But the screen priniting info is valuable

great4
I love this book. I have bought other photoshop books, but they are not concentrated on screen printing.
In each chapter it has clear and easy to follow step by step exercises that is accompanied by a CD.
The only downside is, there is not enough simulated process exercises. I hope the author can write a book filled with simulated process exercises, because I surely will buy it.

Product Description

People have a hard time communicating, and also have a hard time finding business knowledge in the environment. With the sophistication of search technologies like Google, business people expect to be able to get their questions answered about the business just like you can do an internet search. The truth is, knowledge management is primitive today, and it is due to the fact that we have poor business metadata management.

This book is about all the groundwork necessary for IT to really support the business properly. By providing not just data, but the context behind the data. For the IT professional, it will be tactically practical--very "how to" and a detailed approach to implementing best practices supporting knowledge management. And for the the IT or other manager who needs a guide for creating and justifying projects, it will help provide a strategic map.

* First book that helps businesses capture corporate (human) knowledge and unstructured data, and offer solutions for codifying it for use in IT and management.

* Written by Bill Inmon, one of the fathers of the data warehouse and well-known author, and filled with war stories, examples, and cases from current projects.

* Very practical, includes a complete metadata acquisition methodology and project plan to guide readers every step of the way.

* Includes sample unstructured metadata for use in self-testing and developing skills.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #563168 in Books
* Published on: 2007-09-28
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 312 pages

Customer Reviews

Good overview of metadata5
Offers a good perspective about metadata, ownership versus stewardship. Quick read and is something DBAs should be familiar with.

Business Metadata 1013
The book is good for people who have very little exposure to enterprise metadata.

The Good:
* simple and effective language
* broad coverage of the subject

The Bad:
* A very "database" focussed approach - this is a little at odds with some of the latest developments in this field where Enterprise Search Engines are pushing the envelope.

The Ugly:
* The diagrams are really ugly to look at.

Product Description

Delve into the ultimate guide for professional photographers

Harness the power and flexibility of the latest version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, version 1.1, with this expert guide. Professional photographers David Huss and David Plotkin show you how to work smarter, faster, and more creatively with their personal tips, tricks, and techniques that you can incorporate into your own workflow.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 is a powerful tool that you can integrate into your existing workflow to increase your productivity and improve the overall quality of your work. With this ultimate resource by your side, you'll learn how to:

.Organize, adjust, process, output, and share digital pictures like the top professionals
.Personalize Lightroom with a custom Identity plate
.Seamlessly transition between Lightroom and your favorite photo editor
.Quickly view and compare multiple shots, pairing selections down to your best work
.Correct images, adjust white balance, and fine-tune tone, balance, and exposure, crop and undo-all without altering your originals!
.Automate your workflow by applying image adjustments to multiple photos
.Output proof and contact sheets
.Develop, print and display your digital pictures for friends and clients, all the while saving valuable time
.Create slide shows and web postings
.And much more...

As you move from traditional separate image editing applications to this next generation software that was designed specifically for photographers, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 for the Professional Photographer unveils insider secrets and expert advice in this highly visual guide.

David Huss is a professional photographer and author who has written more than 30 books. His work has been translated into eight languages.
David Plotkin is a technical editor, photographer, and software writer who has written five books and numerous articles.

*The most comprehensive guide available on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, fully up-to-date with all of the new features of version 1.1
*Learn how to integrate this powerful software into your own workflow to maximize your productivity
*Written by two industry experts and packed with inspiring images to show you what you can achieve with Lightroom 1.1 and this handy guide by your side!
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #685651 in Books
* Published on: 2007-10-22
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 208 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
"...Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 for the Professional Photographer might be the ideal bit of pre-reading for those considering a costly Lightroom purchase: providing a basic overview of how to get started using Lightroom to its full potential, this book provides a great entry point for more serious photographers looking to test out what Adobe's latest has to offer." -- David Rasnake, DigitalCameraReview.com, Feb 2008

About the Author
David Plotkin is a software writer (he has written 5 books and numerous articles), technical editor and photographer
Customer Reviews

Mac users take note2
I'm so annoyed, I had the buy the book and read the introduction in order to find that the authors have focused on the PC platform rather than on the Mac. There is nothing on the cover, nor in the presentation blurb to indicate this. The authors state that they are 'hard core Windows users' which has sadly marginalised a respectable number of Mac readers, (unless, like me, they bought the book unknowingly.)

This Lightroom book makes your photographic work LIGHT5
This book is excellent for everyone who wants to use adobe Lightroom to handle his digital photographs.
It is very detailed with plenty of examples.
A necessity for every Lightroom user.

Not Enough Information2
The tag in the title of this book "for the Professional Photographer" might create the implication that it contains advanced techniques in the use of Lightroom image processing software. However, what the authors present is a rather straightforward introduction to Lightroom. The book contains chapters on importing digital images into Lightroom and organizing them with the library module, adjusting them in the development module, and outputting them as slideshows, prints or websites. Unfortunately, rather then provide advanced techniques, the book often fails to mention rather fundamental techniques.

Typical is the discussion of comparing images to select the best one. The authors indicate that two selected photos can be compared on the monitor screen using the "C" key as a shortcut. To compare more than two pictures they suggest typing the shortcut key "N". When this shortcut is used, all of the multiple photos are displayed simultaneously and, as the mouse cursor is rolled over pictures, a small x appears in a corner of the picture which may be clicked to delete the picture from the pool. This works, but if there are a large number of pictures to be compared the images may be too small to be useful. When more than two pictures are selected, most experienced Lightroom users would type the letter "C" which would allow comparison of two larger images at a time with the deleted competitor being replaced by the next selection. (In the same discussion they suggest that when only one picture is selected, using the "C" key allows a comparison of a single photo's before and after adjustments. In actuality, the key that does that is the "Y" key.)

In a similar vein, the authors suggest that in creating a collection, which is a sort of special file of photographs, one should highlight the collection name and then drag a thumbnail of the image to be added to the highlighted collection name. Actually, it's not necessary to highlight the collection name to drag an image into the collection. It doesn't hurt to highlight the collection name, but it just adds an unnecessary step to the process.

When the authors discuss keywords, they don't mention parent-child relations or the ability to export and import keyword lists into Lightroom, and when they mention catalog backups they don't point out that the location for backups can be changed, which one certainly would want to consider if a backup is made to protect from drive failure.

Although the book purports to cover the changes made to Lightroom in version 1.1 there is no mention of the vastly improved sharpening facility that that upgrade provided. There is also no mention of the integration of Lightroom with other software, like Adobe Photoshop.

These topics may be covered by the not always user-friendly on-line help for Lightroom, but it would certainly make it easier for a new user, to whom most of the instruction seems to be aimed, if the authors dealt with such topics.

Readers interested in learning more about using all of Lightroom's capabilities would be better served by reading Scott Kelby's "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers,The (Voices That Matter)" (even if its corny humor is a bit off-putting, and even though the reader will have to find the 1.1 supplement on the internet), and users seeking a deeper understanding of Lightroom may want to read Rob Sheppard's "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Digital Photographers Only)" or Gulbins and Steinmueller's "Managing Your Photographic Workflow with Photoshop Lightroom".

Product Description

Microsoft Excel is the world's most-popular spreadsheet program--used by schools, offices, and home users. In Excel 2007, Microsoft has completely redesigned the user interface, making it more intuitive and more attractive. But anyone needing to get started quickly without learning all the ins and outs of the software still needs a handy guide. And with Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Microsoft Excel 2007: Visual QuickProject Guide they've got one. Excel expert Maria Langer walks readers through the new interface and teaches them the tools they will use throughout the project. From there, she helps them create their first workbook, using formulas, adding formatting, adding a visually rich chart. Readers also learn how to effectively print their spreadsheets and charts--something that's much more confusing than it sounds! Along the way all readers will learn how to create attractive, professional, and effective Excel documents. Each book in the Visual QuickProject Guide series now has a companion website featuring sample project files--making it even easier for users to work through each project as they read through the book. Other features on the companion website may include articles on getting the most out of the topic, a database of frequently asked questions, excerpts from the book, general tips, and more.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #653683 in Books
* Published on: 2007-01-07
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 144 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Maria Langer is the author of more than 60 computer books, including the bestselling Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide for Peachpit Press. She also wrote the previous editions of the Excel: Visual QuickStart Guide and Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Excel: Visual QuickProject Guide. Using Microsoft Excel, she creates the documents she needs to run her writing, real estate, and helicopter tour business. Visit Maria on the Web at www.marialanger.com.
Customer Reviews

extremely helpful5
I found this booklet extremely helpful. If you don't have much experience with excel, this book is for you. It shows you quick and easy ways to set up a spreadsheet and you can easily adjust the spreadsheet to your fit needs.

Product Description

This book consolidates all the best functionality of pivot tables into one guide that provides you with a meaningful tutorial, offering practical solutions to day-to-day problems. Within just the first 2 chapters, you will be creating basic pivot tables, increasing productivity, and producing reports in minutes instead of hours. Within the first 6 chapters, you will learn how to use pivot tables to quickly highlight your top 10 customers or bottom 5 products in profitability; quickly create analysis comparing sales this period to last period by product or region or both; easily summarize daily transactional data by month or quarter or year in a few mouse clicks-all without knowing any formulas!

By the end of the book, you will truly be a pivot table guru, automating pivot tables using VBA, creating pivot tables with external data in OLAP cubes, and even creating dynamic reporting systems so that your managers can answer their own queries with a few mouse clicks.

- Take advantage of the numerous pivot table recipes

- Create powerful summary reports in seconds

- Build ad-hoc query tools with ease

- Enhance your Executive Reporting

- Filter reports to top 10 customers or products

- Add dynamic charts to reports

- Quickly summarize daily data by month, quarter, or year

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1------------- Pivot Table Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

2------------- Creating a Basic Pivot Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

3------------- Customizing a Pivot Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

4------------- Controlling the Way You View Your Pivot Data . . . . . . . . . . . .83

5------------- Performing Calculations Within Your Pivot Tables . . . . . . . . 117

6------------- Using Pivot Charts and Other Visualizations . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

7------------- Analyzing Disparate Data Sources with Pivot Tables . . . . . . 167

8------------- Sharing Pivot Tables with Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

9------------- Working with and Analyzing OLAP Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

10---------- Enhancing Your Pivot Table Reports with Macros . . . . . . . . .215

11---------- Using VBA to Create Pivot Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

12---------- Common Pivot Table Issues and Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291

A------------ Finding Pivot Table Commands on the Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . .315

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #13939 in Books
* Published on: 2007-01-05
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
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About the Author

Bill Jelen is Mr. Excel! He is principal behind the leading Excel website, MrExcel.com. He honed his pivot table wizardry during a 12-year tenure as a financial analyst for a fast growing public computer firm. Armed with only a spreadsheet, he learned how to turn thousands of rows of transactional data into meaningful summaries in record time. He is an accomplished author of books on Excel and is a regular guest on “Call For Help” on TechTV Canada. As an Excel consultant, he has written Excel VBA solutions for hundreds of clients around the English-speaking world. His website hosts over 12 million page views annually.



Michael Alexander is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) with over 14 years experience developing business solutions with Microsoft Office, VBA, and .Net. He currently lives in Frisco, Texas, where he works as a senior program manager for a top technology firm. In his spare time, he runs a free tutorial site, www.datapigtechnologies.com, where he shares basic Access and Excel tips with intermediate users.

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Introduction

Pivot tables are the single most powerful feature in all of Excel. They came along during the 1990s when Microsoft and Lotus were locked in a bitter battle for dominance of the spreadsheet market. The race to continually add enhanced features to their respective products during the mid-90s led to many incredible features, but none as powerful as the pivot table.

With a pivot table, you can take 1 million rows of transactional data and transform it into a summary report in seconds. If you can drag a mouse, you can create a pivot table. In addition to quickly summarizing and calculating data, pivot tables allow you to change your analysis on the fly by simply moving fields from one area of a report to another.

There is simply no other tool in Excel that gives you the flexibility and analytical power that pivot tables can give you.
What You Will Learn from This Book

It is widely agreed that close to 50% of Excel users leave 80% of Excel untouched. That is, most users don't tap into the full potential of Excel's built-in utilities. Of these utilities, the most prolific by far is the pivot table. Despite the fact that pivot tables have been a cornerstone of Excel for more than 12 years now, they remain one of the most underutilized tools in the entire Microsoft Office Suite. If you have picked up this book, you are savvy enough to have heard of pivot tables or even have used them on occasion. You have a sense that pivot tables have a power that you are not using, and you want to learn how to leverage that power to quickly increase your productivity.

Within the first two chapters, you will be able to create basic pivot tables, increase your productivity, and produce reports in minutes instead of hours. Within the first seven chapters, you will be able to output complex pivot reports with drill-down capabilities accompanying charts. By the end of the book, you will be able to build a dynamic pivot table reporting system.
What Is New in Excel 2007's Pivot Tables

Microsoft streamlined the pivot table interface to make it easier to use. In the last six versions of Excel, you generally created and modified a pivot table by dragging field names around the worksheet. Excel provided subtle visual clues about where a dropped field would appear, but these clues were too subtle for most. If you accidentally dropped a text field in the data area instead of the row area, disaster would result. Now, in Excel 2007, you can build a pivot table by checking a few boxes. Excel's IntelliSense figures out the best location for the field. To modify the default, you can drag field names around the PivotTable Field List.

Also new in Excel 2007 is the easier interface for sorting and filtering fields in a pivot table. Whereas sorting was formerly hidden three levels deep in the menu system, it is now just one click away from the PivotTable Field List.

Formatting such as heat maps, data bars, banded rows, and columns are now available as icons on the Excel 2007 Ribbon.

Finally, Microsoft is pushing a high-end server product that allows many people to access data stored in pivot tables. It is no surprise that pivot tables play a key role in the interactivity of Excel Services for SharePoint.
Skills Required to Use This Book

We have created a reference that is comprehensive enough for hard-core analysts yet relevant to casual users of Excel. The bulk of the book covers how to use pivot tables in the Excel user interface. The final chapter describes how to create pivot tables in Excel's powerful VBA macro language. This means that any user who has a firm grasp of the basics (preparing data, copying, pasting, entering simple formulas) should have no problem understanding the concepts in this book.
Life Before Pivot Tables

Imagine that it is 1992. You are using Lotus 1-2-3 or Excel 4. You have thousands of rows of transactional data, as shown in Figure I.1. Your manager asks you to prepare a summary report showing revenue by region and product.

In 1992, preparing this report was a daunting task. It required superhuman spreadsheet skills that few could master. Here are the steps you needed to take:

1. You need to get a list of the unique regions in the dataset. Use the Advanced Filter command with Unique Records Only (see Figure I.2) to extract a list of the unique regions.
2. You need to get a list of the unique products in the dataset. Use the Advanced Filter command with Unique Records Only a second time to extract a list of the unique products.
3. You need to turn the list of products sideways so that it runs across the columns. Copy the list of unique models. Then choose Edit, Paste Special, Transpose to arrange the products as headings going across the report. You now have a skeleton of the report, as shown in Figure I.3.
4. You could use the DSUM function to total a column based on one criterion, but not based on two criteria. Therefore, you need to abandon typical functions and instead rely on an array formula. Before entering the array formula, set up two fields above the report to hold a sample region and sample model.
5. In the corner cell of the report, build an array formula to test whether the region column is North and the Model column is 4055T, and if so, add the corresponding row from the Revenue column. After typing this formula, remember to press Ctrl+Shift+Enter; otherwise, the formula will not work. The formula is shown in the formula bar in Figure I.4.

Tip - For a complete explanation of two-condition sums using array formulas, see http://www.MrExcel.com/tip031.shtml.

6. You know you're a hard-core data analyst if you can still imagine pressing the keystrokes for /Data Table 2 in Lotus 1-2-3. Figure I.5 shows the equivalent function in Excel. In Excel 2007, this command is found in Data, Data Tools, What If Analysis, Data Table.
7. Finally, after using two advanced filters and a Paste Special command, writing the hardest formula in the world, and then using the Data Table command, you have the result your manager is looking for, as shown in Figure I.6. If you could pull off this analysis in 10 minutes, you were doing an amazing job.

Now, if your manager takes a look at the report and asks you to add Market to the analysis, you are nearly back at square one and are looking at an additional 15 minutes to produce the new report.
The Invention of the Pivot Table

The concept that led to today's pivot table came from the halls of the Lotus Development Corporation with a revolutionary spreadsheet program called Lotus Improv. Improv was envisioned in 1986 by Pito Salas of the Advanced Technology Group at Lotus. Realizing that spreadsheets often have patterns of data, Pito concluded that if a user could build a tool that could recognize these patterns, then he could build enhanced data models. Lotus ran with the concept and started developing the next-generation spreadsheet.

Throughout 1987, Lotus demonstrated its new program to a few companies. In 1988, Steve Jobs saw the program and immediately wanted it developed for his upcoming NeXT computer platform. The program, finally named Lotus Improv, was eventually shipped in 1991 for the NeXT platform. A version for Windows

Product Description

This is the eBook version of the printed book.
Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Unleashed provides a comprehensive and in-depth overview of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and Enterprise Project Management (EPM). This book should be used as a reference to guide you through system capabilities and the use of more advanced product features in the context of your business processes. In this book you will find cutting-edge information, including the necessary framework and approach to implement a complex project management software product. Find practical, real-world guidance on how to plan, install, configure, deploy, use, manage, and customize your EPM Implementation. This book is your only in-depth source for Microsoft Office Project Server 2007!
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About the Author
QuantumPM, LLC is a project, program, and portfolio management product and services firm that helps its clients create pragmatic and valuable solutions to address real-world problems. The company combines state-of-the-art tools from Microsoft and other technology leaders, its own expertise, and industry best practices to create solutions that support the way its customers work. QuantumPM products and services include management consulting, technical consulting, training, hosting services, earned value management, and business intelligence solutions.

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Introduction to Enterprise Project Management

Throughout this book, you will see that Enterprise Project Management (EPM; also called Enterprise Portfolio Management) is made up of two components: philosophy and tool. Although the book is primarily technical in nature, it is impossible to separate the technology from the environment in which it works. This software is not a "magic bullet" that will solve all process problems. Although it is great software, it has limitations, and the primary one is that it is only as good as the processes that surround the tool.
Why We Wrote This Book

The Sams Publishing Unleashed series is intended for both beginner and intermediate audiences. The primary purpose of this book is to provide knowledge to the reader of the capabilities of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, a robust EPM software application. It does not provide a step-by-step cookbook answer but rather provides the logic and approach that should be used for implementing a complex project management software product. Unlike other server products, EPM requires extensive knowledge of the project management domain and the business goals to install and configure it in the most optimal manner.

Much of the material covered in this book is simple enough for a beginner to understand but it also allows you to grow with the book as more advanced topics are covered. The intermediate user will find that the material is new and interesting and provides practical tips, tricks, and guidelines based on this team's experience of hundreds of successful EPM installations and implementations for thousands of users.

This book is comprehensive enough to be a source of powerful and meaningful information but is not meant to be a "cradle-to-grave" guide of all things possible with this software. It does need to fit in a briefcase or next to your desk!

The team is excited to offer you the opportunity to get into the consultants' heads and get some practical and real-world examples on how to plan, install, configure, deploy, and manage an EPM implementation.
How This Book Is Organized

This book is divided into six parts designed to be of interest to a wide variety of readers. Some of the chapters focus on planning and organization, whereas others focus on technology details. The following information should help you decide which chapters are important for your role.
Part I—Initiating Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Implementation

Part I is an introduction to the software application and to the philosophy of approach to EPM. It is intended for all audiences to provide context for successfully planning and managing the EPM environment.

Chapter 1, "Enterprise Project Management Overview," describes enterprise thinking and what it takes to be successful with deployment of a software tool. The tool is not a magic bullet that will solve all problems regarding people, process, and environment.

Chapter 2, "Understanding Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 as an Enterprise Project Management Solution," is an overview of the major features of the EPM tool and how these features are integrated within the tool.

Chapter 3, "Initiating Your EPM Implementation," discusses what you should do and understand before beginning your EPM implementation planning. In addition to reviewing organizational factors and processes that you need to consider, the chapter details business justification, scope development, and obtaining authority to proceed as necessary steps before starting the planning process.
Part II—Planning Your Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Implementation

Part II discusses what your business and IT staff must do to properly plan and prepare for the implementation. Chapters in this part detail organizational processes and roles, Project Server 2007 architecture, and the technical design of the solution integrating your business processes.

Chapter 4, "Planning the Organizational Processes and Roles," helps the reader approach the implementation of this tool realistically by first understanding the key focus areas. In addition, you will understand how Project Server 2007 features and functions address the main usage scenarios, the planning of Project Server 2007 users and roles, planning project phases to be integrated into the solution, planning the actual deployment of the tool, migration planning, development of operational policies and processes, and finalizing and communicating implementation scope.

Chapter 5, "Understanding Microsoft office 2007 Project Server Architecture," provides the high-level view of the software components, the solution architecture, and considerations for scalability and security.

Chapter 6, "Designing the Enterprise Project Management Solution Architecture Details," provides an in-depth look at design requirements that must be considered when planning an EPM implementation.
Part III—Implementing Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

Part III discusses the steps necessary for implementing Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. The intended audience for the chapters in this part are members of the implementation team.

Chapter 7, "Installing Microsoft Office Project Server 2007," focuses on the high level steps and checklists, as well as useful references to already existing materials for installing Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. In addition, it provides a post-installation validation checklist that verifies the success of the installation—a crucial step prior to configuring the solution.

Chapter 8, "Configuring Your EPM Solution," provides an introduction to configuring the solution as well as reminds the implementation team to revisit business requirements to ensure that the solution addresses the key user needs and functionality.

Chapter 9, "Configuring Security Model Settings," addresses the security options and capabilities of the software. This important chapter helps the reader create a security model that is both robust and flexible so that it does not require a great deal of administrative time to maintain.

Chapter 10, "Configuring Enterprise Custom Fields," describes the core configuration elements of the software. Configuration models vary from organization to organization based on the complexity of the setup and the needs of the business. This chapter discusses the options available for the user.

Chapter 11, "Configuring Resources Attributes and Resource Pool," discusses the details of configuring the resource breakdown structure and configuring the resource pool, including resource types, matching skill sets, and synchronizing with Active Directory.

Chapter 12, "Configuring Calendars," explains the various settings and functionality of the Enterprise Global calendars and design considerations for various ways to configure the solution.

Chapter 13, "Configuring Task and Time Management Settings," explains the difference in the functionality of task and time management and the configuration options available to your organization to best fit your business model and processes.

Chapter 14, "Standardizing Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 Global Settings," discusses ways to standardize views, tables, toolbars, forms, maps, and other elements across your organization.

Chapter 15, "Configuring the Microsoft Office Project Web Access 2007 Interface," details the configuration options for the look and feel elements of the web-based Project Server 2007 component, Project Web Access.

Chapter 16, "Configuring Operational Policies," provides details for configuring and handling alerts and reminders, enterprise settings, server-side event handlers, Active Directory synchronization, project workspace management, and provisioning settings.

Chapter 17, "Configuring Reporting and Analysis," explains how an organization can set up views of the data and reports to meet the needs of di...
Customer Reviews

If you're implementing Project Server, THIS IS THE BOOK5
This is actually one of the best books I have seen in support of a product. Not only does it provide in depth information, it is specific to certain 'views' about the product, including technical, business, adoption, etc. If you are implementing Project Server, this will be one of the wisest decisions you could make to purchase this book.

Product Description

This authoritative, solutions-based resource describes configuring, managing, and troubleshooting any SharePoint installation

Key topics discussed include creating an Office Server portal, content management, SharePoint server and business intelligence, Office Server customization, and solutions scenarios

Expert advice covers how to use SharePoint to create collaborative Web sites that easily integrate with corporate intranets and portals, team and customer collaboration sites, document management systems, and more
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #59225 in Books
* Published on: 2007-06-12
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 792 pages

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Implement SharePoint and make the most of it

SharePoint Server 2007 offers incredible versatility to content managers, project managers, and administrators, and here's everything you need to know to harness its power. Create Office-compatible collaborative Web sites, corporate intranets and portals, document management systems, and much more. This essential reference helps you deploy, configure, customize, and troubleshoot SharePoint to maximize business intelligence, manage records and Web content, enable collaboration among employees and customers, and boost business success.

* Create portals that facilitate business processes
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Use SharePoint as a Business Intelligence platform
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Discover solutions and hacks that offer new options
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Customize and use Web Parts
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Implement lists and libraries
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Integrate Office 2007 functions
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Manage business records and use the Report Center

About the Author
Wynne Leon, Wayne Tynes, and Simeon Cathey have a combined 40 years of consulting experience. Wynne's specialty is architecting and implementing Microsoft technologies, and she has published works on Exchange and Active Directory. Wayne specializes in knowledge management and prior to forming Avitiva, worked on the Microsoft SharePoint product team. Simeon excels in leading teams to design and develop innovative solutions. Their company, Avitiva, is focused on the design, development, hosting, and implementation of SharePoint.
Customer Reviews

Not thorough-mostly info available for free from Microsoft Office Online1
Skip it-Real basic stuff already available for free from Microsoft online and covered in more useful detail. Definitely not up to the title Sharepoint Bible. There are much better Sharepoint resources for your money that cover scenarios that represent real world tasks you are likely to come across that aren't just a single point & click in the Sharepoint. http://www.amazon.com/Real-World-SharePoint-2007-Indispensable/dp/0470168358 is one example I do recommend.

Good reference for End Users3
I was reccomended this book by a collegue as the only book I would need to get up to speed on MOSS. That was not a very good reccomendation. It is very weak on the setup, configuration and Share Service Provider aspects of managing a MOSS environment. It also has nothing of relevance on doing Web Parts.
What is is very strong in is end user tasks, such as building and maintaining list and document libraries. It also has some great content on customizing the envrinment and branding. The SharePoint Designer is also introduced as well.
If you are a normal office worker who is responsible for maintaining the content for your group or team, this is an excellent book. If you are a network admin or a developer this would be a good book to have, but do not expect anything very deep.

Comprehensive vision3
I started working on sharepoint since 1 year almost , and waiting for issued rich reference for all the ideas and components related to each field supported by practical examples help to handle the most wode issues experienced from standalone to larg servers farm.

Product Description

Microsoft Forefront is a comprehensive suite of security products that will provide companies with multiple layers of defense against threats. Computer and Network Security is a paramount issue for companies in the global marketplace. Businesses can no longer afford for their systems to go down because of viruses, malware, bugs, trojans, or other attacks. Running a Microsoft Forefront Suite within your environment brings many different benefits. Forefront allows you to achieve comprehensive, integrated, and simplified infrastructure security. This comprehensive suite of tools provides end-to-end security stretching from Web servers back to the desktop. This book will provide system administrators familiar with Syngress' existing Microsoft networking and security titles with a complete reference to Microsoft's flagship security products.

* First book to address securing an entire Microsoft network from Web servers all the way back to the desktop.
* Companion Web site provides best practices checklists for securing Microsoft operating systems, applications, servers, and databases.
* Companion Web site provides special chapter on designing and implementing a disaster recover plan for a Microsoft network.
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Dragos Tudor, Windows Systems Engineer, Verizon
?Microsoft has become a new powerful player in the security industry with the release of Forefront. The comprehensive security suite will be an important tool for Network Administrators. A comprehensive book from a respected publisher is imperative so that Administrators can fully benefit from the product. My former Professor, Jesse Varsalone, will be able to detail how Microsoft Forefront Security can help Administrators.?

Kelly Brown, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Computer Science Corporation
?Microsoft Forefront is the newest in Microsoft?s line of Security Offerings. Recently, Microsoft has become much more security conscious. A new publication that details the inner workings of Microsoft?s Forefront Security suite so that network administrators can gauge it?s usefulness in the Enterprise Environment. Jesse Varsalone is well versed in the area of Microsoft products and the advantages and disadvantages associated with them.?

Christina Luo, President, ITPRO911.com
?Microsoft Forefront is the newest component that can help IT Companies keep their Enterprise systems secure. In order for companies to utilize Microsoft Forefront properly, a book is needed from a publisher who is respected in the Security Industry. Jesse Varsalone, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Security, will be able to explain how companies can fully utilize the aspects of security Microsoft Forefront. Jesse will be able to explain the important components of how the product can be effectively utilized in the marketplace.?

Wally Barr, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
As an MCSE, I am interested in the newest offerings from Microsoft. I am interested to know how effective the newest security product, Microsoft Forefront will be useful Enterprise Environment. We need how-to guide on this new product from a reputable publisher. I am convinced that Jesse Varsalone a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Instructor at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, will be able to explain how this security offering will be beneficial to companies who consider using Microsoft products as part of their security solutions

Randy Mika, Technical Support Manager ITPRO911.com
I have been working with Microsoft software and security products for a number of years. I have not worked with their newest security product, Microsoft Forefront, yet, but I am interested in the new features it has to offer. It would be ideal if there was a book that provided some step-by-step instruction on how to use this new product. The author of the book should be someone like Jesse Varsalone, who knows how to explain things in terms that are easy understand.

Product Description

The book aims to give the most up-to-date information about the epidemiology, the pathophysiology, the diagnosis and the new treatments of the Emerging Pathologies in Cardiology. It presents the state of the art on Acute Coronary Syndromes, Sudden Cardiac Death, Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation, Syncope and Prevention of Global Cardiovascular Risk which are some of the emerging pathologies urging investigators to develop many and more sophisticated pharmacological, electrical or mechanical therapies. The volume chapters are written by world-renowned leading experts in these fields, and present a detailed analysis of the most recent developments in the treatment of the above mentioned cardiac pathologies.

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Editorial review:
The book aims to give the most up-to-date information about the epidemiology, the pathophysiology, the diagnosis and the new treatments of the Emerging Pathologies in Cardiology. It presents the state of the art on Acute Coronary Syndromes, Sudden Cardiac Death, Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation, Syncope and Prevention of Global Cardiovascular Risk which are some of the emerging pathologies urging investigators to develop many and more sophisticated pharmacological, electrical or mechanical therapies. The volume chapters are written by world-renowned leading experts in these fields, and present a detailed analysis of the most recent developments in the treatment of the above mentioned cardiac pathologies.

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This well established ABC has been updated with new charts, illustrations and guidelines on aspects of nutrition which affect heart disease, blood pressure, chronic diseases such as diabetes and some types of cancer. The book also contains the most current nutritional recommendations for pregnancy and infant feeding as well as advice for children and adults young and old. With chapters covering nutritional deficiencies in both developing and affluent countries as well as eating disorders and obesity, this latest edition has worldwide relevance.

This title is now available for the PDA, powered by Skyscape - to buy your copy click here
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* Published on: 2003-09-19
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* 152 pages

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"Almost everyone will find something new. It is a pleasure to recommend this book." (on previous edition) -- Trends in Food Science and Technology

"Almost everyone will find something new. It is a pleasure to recommend this book" - Trends in Food Science and Technology

"One of the most usable, concise, clearly written, and unambiguous sources of information about the science and practice of nutrition."

"Ranks as one of the most concise, well written, and useful books for those healthcare professionals who want to know how nutrition should best be practiced."
Nutrition and Dietetics (2004) 61:2

"Almost everyone will find something new. It is a pleasure to recommend this book" - Trends in Food Science and Technology

"One of the most usable, concise, clearly written, and unambiguous sources of information about the science and practice of nutrition."

"Ranks as one of the most concise, well written, and useful books for those healthcare professionals who want to know how nutrition should best be practiced."
Nutrition and Dietetics (2004) 61:2

Review
"Almost everyone will find something new. It is a pleasure to recommend this book" - Trends in Food Science and Technology

"One of the most usable, concise, clearly written, and unambiguous sources of information about the science and practice of nutrition."

"Ranks as one of the most concise, well written, and useful books for those healthcare professionals who want to know how nutrition should best be practiced."
Nutrition and Dietetics (2004) 61:2

From the Publisher
Part of the best-selling ABC series
Replaces ABC of Nutrition 3rd edition 0 7279 1233 X
New charts and illustrations
Updated guidelines on aspects of nutrition which affect heart disease, blood pressure and chronic diseases such as diabetes and some types of cancer

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The most-up-to-date book on the market, gives readers the biochemistry background needed to succeed in medical school. Contains the latest case studies, discussions of biochemical diseases, clinical information, the fundamentals of biochemistry, and prevalent medical conditions. Concise and comprehensive, it is the perfect textbook for the USMLE review.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #406284 in Books
* Published on: 2003-03-18
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 693 pages

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Review
"Originally published in 1939, this enduring reference/text continues with its mission to introduce biochemistry concepts to medical and health sciences students in concise text supported with graphs, charts, and diagrams. Updating the 2003 26th edition (which was drastically revised to make it shorter), the 27th includes substantial revisions as well as new coverage of bioinformatics and computational biology. Topics are each treated in about 10 pages and are presented under the themes of: structures and functions of proteins and enzymes; bioenergetics and the metabolism of carbohydrates and lipids; metabolism of proteins and amino acids; structure, function and replication of informational macromolecules; biochemistry of extracellular and intracellular communication; and special topics (e.g. nutrition, digestion and absorption, muscle and the cytoskeleton). The authors introduce each concept with discussion of its biomedical importance." (Sci-Tech Book News )

From the Back Cover
Currently the most up-to-date book on the market, Harper's Biochemistry, 25/e, gives you the biochemistry background you need to succeed in medical school. It contains the latest case studies, discussions of biochemical diseases, and clinical information. Concise but comprehensive, it is the perfect textbook for USMLE review. Features: covers the fundamentals of biochemistry in a relevant, interesting manner; contains information on prevalent medical conditions, including hypercholisterolemia, obesity, osteoporosis, and diabetes mellitus; covers new developments in metabolism and genetics, including the Human Genome Project and the genetic basis of hemochromatosis; presents hundreds of colorful images to help students visualize new information.

About the Author
Robert K. Murray, MD, PhD (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Daryl K. Granner, MD (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee) Peter A. Mayes, PhD, DSc (University of London, London, England) Victor W. Rodwell, PhD (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana)
Customer Reviews

Biochemistry for Dummies2
I am a medical school professor and am familiar with the different biochemistry textbooks. Harper's is a simplified text book that does not have the detail of depth of information one finds in the gold-standard texts of Lehninger or Stryer. There is a reason why these texts and not Harper's are much more commonly found in the undergraduate, graduate and medical school classrooms. Harper's is ok for the educated layperson or for the non-biologist who wants an overview of biochemistry.

Complicated3
I'm a second year med student and this is the most difficult book I have to read. No so much because of the difficulty of the subject but cause it's written in so complicated way. Also to fully understand the contents I think one must have somewhat biochemical background. Which alot of people don't have. I find myself reading more from wikipeadia then from the book!

great for review5
While this book may not give quite the same level of detail found in some of the more massive and expensive intro to biochem texts, it is nevertheless a valuable reference. The fundamentals are all here, in an admirably clear and concise form. That makes going back to review much easier than with the fat books. In that way, this book fills an important gap in the field of available texts. If however one comes across a particularly difficult concept, the concise explanations may leave them wanting or needing more. In fairness though, I think a lot of the fatter books have the same drawback despite their longwindedness. Afterall, biochemistry can be pretty tough no matter what book you're looking at. If you are using the book as part of a class, then theoretically that is why there is an instructor, lectures and tutorial sessions. Admittedly, and to the student's detriment, the system doesn't always work out that way. I've found the book to be excellent for review because of its brevity and clarity. This book also gets high marks for attempting to point out the clinical relevance of the material, something that cannot be said for the majority of the big textbooks.

Product Description

The most-up-to-date book on the market, gives readers the biochemistry background needed to succeed in medical school. Contains the latest case studies, discussions of biochemical diseases, clinical information, the fundamentals of biochemistry, and prevalent medical conditions. Concise and comprehensive, it is the perfect textbook for the USMLE review.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #406284 in Books
* Published on: 2003-03-18
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 693 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
"Originally published in 1939, this enduring reference/text continues with its mission to introduce biochemistry concepts to medical and health sciences students in concise text supported with graphs, charts, and diagrams. Updating the 2003 26th edition (which was drastically revised to make it shorter), the 27th includes substantial revisions as well as new coverage of bioinformatics and computational biology. Topics are each treated in about 10 pages and are presented under the themes of: structures and functions of proteins and enzymes; bioenergetics and the metabolism of carbohydrates and lipids; metabolism of proteins and amino acids; structure, function and replication of informational macromolecules; biochemistry of extracellular and intracellular communication; and special topics (e.g. nutrition, digestion and absorption, muscle and the cytoskeleton). The authors introduce each concept with discussion of its biomedical importance." (Sci-Tech Book News )

From the Back Cover
Currently the most up-to-date book on the market, Harper's Biochemistry, 25/e, gives you the biochemistry background you need to succeed in medical school. It contains the latest case studies, discussions of biochemical diseases, and clinical information. Concise but comprehensive, it is the perfect textbook for USMLE review. Features: covers the fundamentals of biochemistry in a relevant, interesting manner; contains information on prevalent medical conditions, including hypercholisterolemia, obesity, osteoporosis, and diabetes mellitus; covers new developments in metabolism and genetics, including the Human Genome Project and the genetic basis of hemochromatosis; presents hundreds of colorful images to help students visualize new information.

About the Author
Robert K. Murray, MD, PhD (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Daryl K. Granner, MD (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee) Peter A. Mayes, PhD, DSc (University of London, London, England) Victor W. Rodwell, PhD (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana)
Customer Reviews

Biochemistry for Dummies2
I am a medical school professor and am familiar with the different biochemistry textbooks. Harper's is a simplified text book that does not have the detail of depth of information one finds in the gold-standard texts of Lehninger or Stryer. There is a reason why these texts and not Harper's are much more commonly found in the undergraduate, graduate and medical school classrooms. Harper's is ok for the educated layperson or for the non-biologist who wants an overview of biochemistry.

Complicated3
I'm a second year med student and this is the most difficult book I have to read. No so much because of the difficulty of the subject but cause it's written in so complicated way. Also to fully understand the contents I think one must have somewhat biochemical background. Which alot of people don't have. I find myself reading more from wikipeadia then from the book!

great for review5
While this book may not give quite the same level of detail found in some of the more massive and expensive intro to biochem texts, it is nevertheless a valuable reference. The fundamentals are all here, in an admirably clear and concise form. That makes going back to review much easier than with the fat books. In that way, this book fills an important gap in the field of available texts. If however one comes across a particularly difficult concept, the concise explanations may leave them wanting or needing more. In fairness though, I think a lot of the fatter books have the same drawback despite their longwindedness. Afterall, biochemistry can be pretty tough no matter what book you're looking at. If you are using the book as part of a class, then theoretically that is why there is an instructor, lectures and tutorial sessions. Admittedly, and to the student's detriment, the system doesn't always work out that way. I've found the book to be excellent for review because of its brevity and clarity. This book also gets high marks for attempting to point out the clinical relevance of the material, something that cannot be said for the majority of the big textbooks.

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"The best feature of this lab manual is its style and organization. It is not just readable, it is thorough.... It is comparable to the best lab manuals I have used or read."

—William Coleman, University of Hartford

"It is a friendly-to-student book and I think student users will appreciate it--even if they don't realize why. I think they will like microbiology just a bit more."

—Loyd J. Hays, University of Texas at San Antonio

Clear, concise, and always engaging!

Written specifically for allied health students, Pollack, Findlay, Mondschein, and Modesto’s Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology, 2/e focuses on what students need to succeed in the lab: clear, concise, and highly engaging exercises and activities, rather than content that is simply adapted from a standard microbiology textbook.

Throughout the manual, a variety of interactive activities and experiments convey the basic concepts of microbiology––all in a student-friendly tone. Students also have the opportunity to explore methods that allow the safe movement or transfer of microbial cells from one type of growth environment to another, classification and identification of microbes, microbial biochemistry, as well as laboratory exercises from medical, food, and environmental microbiology.
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"The best feature of this lab manual is its style and organization. It is not just readable, it is thorough.... It is comparable to the best lab manuals I have used or read."

—William Coleman, University of Hartford

"It is a friendly-to-student book and I think student users will appreciate it--even if they don't realize why. I think they will like microbiology just a bit more."

—Loyd J. Hays, University of Texas at San Antonio

Clear, concise, and always engaging!

Written specifically for allied health students, Pollack, Findlay, Mondschein, and Modesto’s Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology, 2/e focuses on what students need to succeed in the lab: clear, concise, and highly engaging exercises and activities, rather than content that is simply adapted from a standard microbiology textbook.

Throughout the manual, a variety of interactive activities and experiments convey the basic concepts of microbiology––all in a student-friendly tone. Students also have the opportunity to explore methods that allow the safe movement or transfer of microbial cells from one type of growth environment to another, classification and identification of microbes, microbial biochemistry, as well as laboratory exercises from medical, food, and environmental microbiology.

For additional student and instructor resources, go to

www.wiley.com/college/pollack

Also available Winter 2004-2005:

Microbiology: Principles and Explorations, 6e by Jacquelyn G. Black

www.wiley.com/college/black

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This unique book bridges the gap between toxicology and chemistry at a level understandable by a wide spectrum of readers with various interests and a broad range of backgrounds in chemistry, biochemistry, and toxicology. The third edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect recent advances in important areas of research, including toxicogenetics and toxic effects on various body systems. Toxicological Chemistry and Biochemistry, Third Edition begins by outlining the basic concepts of general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry needed to understand the topics in the book. The author then presents an overview of environmental chemistry so that you can understand the remainder of the material covered within that framework. He also discusses biodegradation, bioaccumulation, and biochemical processes that occur in water and soil. The new chapter on toxic effects considers toxicities to the endocrine and reproductive systems, and the section on xenobiotics analysis deals with the determination of toxicants and their metabolites in blood and other biological materials. The chapter on the genetic aspects of toxicology discusses the ways in which chemical damage to DNA can cause mutations, cancer, and other toxic effects on specific body systems, and it considers the role of genetics in determining individual susceptibilities to various toxicants. Toxicological Chemistry and Biochemistry, Third Edition retains the basic information and structure that made the first two editions popular with students and industry professionals, while enhancing the usefulness of the book and modernizing it in important areas. Review questions and supplementary references at the end of each chapter round out the third edition of this bestselling work.
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This textbook captures the essentials of its title.5
Compared to other text books of this nature dealing with the same scientific discipline, Manahan captures the reader's attention by dealing with several environmental focal points from and organic, toxicological, and environmental chemistry standpoint.

Based on its uniqueness and seemingly open paths for comprehension, this textbook is a must for those desiring further knowledge in the area of toxicological chemistry with a detailed spectrum of organic and environmental chemistry with a keen mix of environmental toxicology.

In short one would soon surmise this textbook is nothing short of academically remarkable and a credit to the fields of environmental toxicology, organic chemistry, and environmental chemistry. It is a must read science text for those in the environmental and chemistry fields whether academic, industrial, or government.

This textbook captures the essentials of its title.5
Compared to other text books of this nature dealing with the same scientific discipline, Manahan captures the reader's attention by dealing with several environmental focal points from and organic, toxicological, and environmental chemistry standpoint.

Based on its uniqueness and seemingly open paths for comprehension, this textbook is a must for those desiring further knowledge in the area of toxicological chemistry with a detailed spectrum of organic and environmental chemistry with a keen mix of environmental toxicology.

In short one would soon surmise this textbook is nothing short of academically remarkable and a credit to the fields of environmental toxicology, organic chemistry, and environmental chemistry. It is a must read science text for those in the environmental and chemistry fields whether academic, industrial, or government.

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The latest edition of this highly acclaimed textbook, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the science and medical applications of biopharmaceutical products. Biopharmaceuticals refers to pharmaceutical substances derived from biological sources, and increasingly, it is synonymous with 'newer' pharmaceutical substances derived from genetic engineering or hybridoma technology.

This superbly written review of the important areas of investigation in the field, covers drug production, plus the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of action together with the biotechnology of major biopharmaceutical types on the market or currently under development. There is also additional material reflecting both the technical advances in the area and detailed information on key topics such as the influence of genomics on drug discovery.
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"…contains just about everything that anyone would want to know about the subject…It's all here in this easy-to-read textbook.” (Biochemistry and Molecular Education, March/April 2004)

"...well written… (and) copiously illustrated..." (Chemistry & Industry, 17th January 2005)

“This book should be recommended reading for all under-graduate course in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences …”. (Cell Biochemistry & Function, March-April 2005)

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"…contains just about everything that anyone would want to know about the subject…It's all here in this easy-to-read textbook.” (Biochemistry and Molecular Education, March/April 2004)

"...well written… (and) copiously illustrated..." (Chemistry & Industry, 17th January 2005)

“This book should be recommended reading for all under-graduate course in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences …”. (Cell Biochemistry & Function, March-April 2005)

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Biopharmaceuticals: Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the science and medical applications of biopharmaceutical products.

Extensively revised and updated, the Second Edition of this highly successful textbook discusses the latest developments in the field, providing a greater focus on actual commercial products and how they are manufactured. Substantial new sections on detailing biopharmaceutical drug delivery and how advances in genomics and proteomics will impact upon (bio)pharmaceutical drug development are also included.

* Provides a balanced overview of the biopharmaceutical industry, including material on key developments in the field.
* Each chapter supplemented with an extensive further reading section
* Aimed at students taking courses in biotechnology, pharmaceutical science, biochemistry, microbiology or medicine
* An ideal reference for those already employed in the (bio)pharmaceutical sector wishing to gain a better overview of the industry.

Reviews of Biopharmace u ticals:

"Biopharmaceuticals: Biochemistry and Biotechnology contain(s) some very useful information and ultimately serves as a comprehensive introduction to both the biopharmaceutical industry and its role within the larger arena of pharmaceuticals. For those new to, or keen to be involved with biopharmaceuticals, the book will undoubtedly provide a solid grounding of not just the technology, but of the industry as a whole."
—Pharmaceutical Technology Europe

"This great compliment of scientific literature, is easy-to-read and understand, up-to-date as well as comprehensive."
—Bioseparation

"Biopharmaceuticals…is well written and provides an excellent overview of the biotechnology industry…. This book is an excellent and balanced source of information about the biotechnology industry."
—FEBS Letters

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An integrated overview of cancer drug discovery and development from the bench to the clinic, showing with broad strokes and representative examples the drug development process as a network of linked components leading from the discovered target to the ultimate therapeutic product. Following a systems biology approach, the authors explain genomic databases and how to discover oncological targets from them, how then to advance from the gene and transcript to the level of protein biochemistry, how next to move from the chemical realm to that of the living cell and, ultimately, pursue animal modeling and clinical development. Emerging cancer therapeutics including Ritux an, Erbitux, Gleevec Herceptin, Avastin, ABX-EGF, Velcade, Kepivance, Iressa, Tarceva, and Zevalin are addressed. Highlights include cancer genomics, pharmacogenomics, transcriptomics, gene expression analysis, proteomic and enzymatic cancer profiling technologies, and cellular and animal approaches to cancer target validation.
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"...an excellent resource to anyone interested in the field of cancer or cancer research. Its comprehensive overview of different perspectives in oncologic genomics will certainly be beneficial to a wide range of professionals in their ultimate endeavors towards further development of advanced cancer therapies." - Doody's Health Sciences and Book Review Journal

"...provides an integrated overview of cancer drug discovery and development...." - BioTech International
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Thorough Review of Genomics-Based Cancer Research5
This work draws on the experience of dozens of leading scientists in the public and private sector in their efforts to use information from genomics to understand and develop cancer therapies. A wide variety of experimental cancer drugs are discussed, and clinical trial data are presented. At 750 pages it is a substantial work, with enough technical detail to suit the bench scientist and physician, yet an easy enough read to be appreciated by the avid learner.

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Mathematical Physiology provides an introduction into physiology using the tools and perspectives of mathematical modeling and analysis. It describes ways in which mathematical theory may be used to give insights into physiological questions and how physiological questions can in turn lead to new mathematical problems.
The book is divided in two parts, the first dealing with the fundamental principles of cell physiology, and the second with the physiology of systems. In the first part, after an introduction to basic biochemistry and enzyme reactions, the authors discuss volume control, the membrane potential, ionic flow through channels, excitability, calcium dynamics, and electrical bursting. This first part concludes with spatial aspects such as synaptic transmission, gap junctions, the linear cable equation, nonlinear wave propagation in neurons, and calcium waves. In the second part, the human body is studied piece by piece, beginning with an introduction to electrocardiology, followed by the physiology of the circulatory system, blood muscle, hormones, and kindeys. Finally, the authors examine the digestive system and the visual system, ending with the inner ear. This book will be of interest to researchers, to graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in applied mathematics who wish to learn how to build and analyze mathematical models and become familiar with new areas of applications, as well as to physiologists interested in learning about theoretical approaches to their work.

Mathematical Reviews, 2000: "This is neither a physiology book nor a mathematics book, but it is probably the best book ever written on the interdisciplinary field of mathematical physiology, i.e. mathematics applied to modelling physiological phenomena. The book is highly recommended to anybody interested in mathematical or theoretical physiology."

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* Published on: 2001-05-11
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* 792 pages

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"...skillfully written...an excellent job of pulling together detailed, up-to-date results from a vast literature on mathematical physiology..." -- IEEE Control Systems Magazine

From the reviews:

"Probably the best book ever written on the subject of mathematical physiology … It contains numerous exercises, enough to keep even the most diligent student busy, and a comprehensive list of approximately 600 references … highly recommended to anybody interested in mathematical or theoretical physiology." Mathematical Reviews

"In addition to being good reading, excellent pedagogy, and appealing science, the exposition is lucid and clear, and there are many good problem sets to choose from … Highly recommended." Journal of the Society of Mathematical Biology

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Poor explanations2
I used this book in a graduate school course. I found myself checking out other mathematical physiology books to understand what they were talking about. There's poor explanations, and they skip certain steps that would help the reader get a better understanding of what's going on. Save your money and skip this book.

this is the book about systems biology!!!5
If you would like to delve into the true complexity of systems biology (physiology), get this book. It's even much better than computational cell biology book by JJ Tyson et al since it's described in depth. But I'd rephrase Tyson's comment: "The regulatory system is so complex that it defies understanding by verbal arguments alone."

All of it fascinating....5
This book is an excellent overview of the major research into the mathematics of physiological processes. The first part of the book covers cellular physiology beginning with a discussion of biochemical reactions in the first chapter. Some of the applications of dynamical systems are nicely illustrated here, especially bifurcation theory.

Applications of the diffusion equation follow in the next chapter on cellular homeostasis. The Nernst-Planck electrodiffusion equation is discussed but not derived, and is solved in the constant field approximation.

This is complicated somewthat in the next chapter on membrane ion channels, where the potential across the membrane is not assumed to have a constant gradient. There is a discussion of channel blocking drugs in the last section, but unfortunately it is too short. This is an important area of application, with the experimental validation of the mathematical results of upmost importance.

The Hodgkin-Huxley and the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations dominate the next chapter on electrical signaling in cells. The phase space analysis of these models is discussed, along with an interesting treatment of the excitability of cardiac cells in the Appendix of the chapter.

A very well-written treatment, along with helpful diagrams, of calcium dynamics is given in Chapter 5. The authors show how ignoring the fast variables and transients lead one to a solution of they dynamical problem of the receptor model.

Phase space analysis is used extensively in the next chapter on electrical bursting, with emphasis on bursting in pancreatic beta-cells. An interesting discussion on the classification of bursting oscillations is given purely in terms of bifurcation theory.

That synaptic transimission is quantal in nature is one of the topics of the next chapter on intercellular communication. This is the first time in the book that probabilistic methods are introduced into the modeling. The authors quote some very old references on the experimental verification of the quantal model, leaving the reader wondering if more modern experiments have been done. In calculating the effective diffusion coefficients, the authors introduce the technique of homogenization, and give a explanation of the rationale behind the technique. The strategy of determining the behavior at a particular scale without solving completely the details at a finer scale is one that has proven to be quite productive, especially in physics.

The use of partial differential equations is increased in the next chapter on electrical flow in neurons, with the linear cable equation playing the dominant role. The authors use transform methods to obtain the solutions in the main text and exercises, giving references for the reader not familiar with these techniques.

The nonlinear cable equation is the subject of the next chapter, with traveling waves solutions of the bistable equation given the main emphasis. Shooting methods are employed in the solution of this equation, and the authors also treat the more difficult case of the discrete bistable equation.

Wave propagation in higher dimensions is the subject of the next chapter, with spiral waves discussed along with a brief discussion of scroll waves.

The fascinating subject of cardiac propagation is the subject of Chapter 11. The mathematical techniques are not much more complicated, but mathematicians coming to cardiac biology for the first time will need to pay attention to the details. One of the most interesting subjects of the book is treated in Chapter 13 on cell function regulation. Mathematical models of the G1 and G2 checkpoint processes are given.

Part two of the book emphasizes the mathematical modeling of the biological systems, rather than at the cellular level. This part begins with a consideration of how cellular activity can be coordinated to produce a regular heartbeat and how failure can occur. Interestingly, a Schrodinger-like equation appears when linearizing the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations for oscillating cells. And, interestingly, dynamical systems via circle maps appear in the model of the AV modal signal. This is followed by a lengthy and fascinating discussion of the mathematics of the circulatory system. Unfortunately, the discussion on the dangers of high blood pressure is not justified by any mathematical models in the book. It would have been very interesting to see a model developed that would predict the effects of hypertension on the heart, kidneys, etc and one that would be compared with historical and clinical data.

The next chapters discuss physiology of the blood, respiration, and muscles. A very interesting discussion of hormone physiology and mammal ovulation is given. The mathematical models of the kidneys and gastrointestinal systems are very detailed and very enlightening for individuals not in these fields.

The book ends with chapters on the physiology of sight and hearing. The discussion of the light reflex mechanism is very interesting as the authors use linear stability analysis. The oscillations of the basilar membrane in the inner ear are good reading for the physicist.

This book would be of great interest to mathematicians who are entering the field of computational physiology or computational biologists who need an understanding of the modeling required. Very captivating reading........

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The Clinician's Guide to Gastrointestinal Oncology is a unique practical reference for the management of patients with gastrointestinal malignancies and pre-malignant conditions. The high incidence of colorectal cancer coupled with the growing recognition of Barrett's esophagus has led to a growing need for a resource explaining how to screen and manage these and other patients with gastrointestinal neoplasia.

Dr. Michael Kochman, with contributions from other recognized experts of diverse gastrointestinal backgrounds, uses a multidisciplinary approach in presenting the necessary information to optimally manage patients. A balanced approach allows the reader to quickly synthesize an individualized care plan based upon the recommendations of highly skilled professionals. Part of The Clinician's Guide to GI Series, this text also serves as a reference for clinicians to be able to quickly discuss the epidemiology and natural history of these conditions.

The broad range of topics covered, combined with the breadth of knowledge shared from renowned experts, provides a full spectrum of information necessary to properly care for a wide range of patients. Helpful features include TNM staging tables that help the reader choose appropriate treatment options as well as color, radiographic, and endoscopic photographs that highlight significant clinical points.

The Clinician's Guide to Gastrointestinal Oncology is the ideal resource for internists, gastroenterologists, surgeons, and oncologists looking to keep pace with the latest treatment options for an array of neoplastic gastrointestinal conditions.

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Michael L. Kochman, MD, FACP is Professor of Medicine in the Gastroenterology Division at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Endoscopy Training Director and Co-Director of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Program. Dr. Kochman is a graduate of Northwestern University (1982) and the University of Illinois Medical School at Chicago (1986).

At the University of Pennsylvania, he has served on various committees including the Physicians Billing Oversight Committee and Departmental Review Committees. Within the GI division he has served as Fellowship Chairman and has received a number of teaching awards including the Sid Cohen, MD award for the education of fellows. Dr. Kochman has served many local and national societies in a variety of positions. Currently he is President of the Delaware Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and is the Program Chairman for the Pennsylvania State Gastroenterology Society. His major national commitments are to the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). He has served the AGA on the Education Committee and the Program Committee and is currently a member of the Clinical Practice Committee. For the ASGE, Dr. Kochman has served on the Post-Graduate Education Committee, the EUS SIG and is currently a member of the Research Committee and the Program Committee.

Dr. Kochman is the Chairman of the Editorial Board of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and is coeditor for Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the Yearbook of Gastroenterology. He also serves on the editorial boards and as a reviewer for a number of journals including Annals of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. Dr. Kochman has published over 120 articles and chapters and a number of videos. He has edited 4 published books and is currently editing 3 books to be published in the near future.

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PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT OF PAIN presents a comprehensive approach to chronic pain with its practical, concise descriptions of pain evaluation, pain syndromes, rationales for management, and treatment modalities. The book includes commonly seen pain syndromes, including headaches, trunk pain, orofacial pain, back pain, and extremity pain, as well as specific pain syndromes such as postoperative pain, pain due to cancer, phantom pain, and pain in the management of AIDS patients. This book is excellent both for non-specialists who treat the occasional pain patient and for physicians specializing in pain management.

Spanish version also available, ISBN: 84-8174-552-9
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Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX. Provides the required theoretical knowledge base for achieving a successful professional career in pain medicine and for preparing the physician trainee for certification in pain medicine. Revised and updated, this edition also covers pain management in outer space. Previous edition: c1992. DNLM: Pain--therapy.

About the Author
P. Prithvi Raj, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Co-Director of Pain Services, Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas
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Good Book!5
"Comprehensive' and "Practical" are the proper words to describe this book.

In contrast to other pain medicine text books, it starts with "General Considerations" in Part I which provides very important and hard to find information such as "Organization of Inpatient Pain Service", "Organization of Pain Services for Chronic and Cancer Pain', "Organization of Pain Management Services in Children" which are instrumental for any pain practices in learning and following appropriate guidelines in establishing and providing such services.

In Part II, the "Basic Consideration" touches on Pain Pathways & Mechanisms, Anatomy and Physiology, Neurochemistry in a rather focused way. Two short Chapters with one on "Pharmacological Management of Pain", one on "Biopsychosocial Evaluation & Treatment of Chronic Pain" are refreshing and informative.

In Part III, the "Clinical Consideration", provides Chapters on "Acute Pain Syndromes", "Pain During Pregnancy", "Phantom Pain", "Visceral Pain", "Cancer Pain", "Pain in Selected Neurological Disorders", "Geriatric Pain", "Pain in Children". I find these chapters helpful in setting up guidelines for the management of acute pain, cancer pain, pediatric pain and pain in pregnant women. E.g, I had tough time during my Pain Management Fellowship training in finding the topic of "pain management in pregnancy" from other pain management text books. The discussion on post op pain management is quite thorough which helped me quite a bit during my Pain Fellowship Acute Pain Service.

In Part IV, the section of "Evaluation & Investigation" includes chapters on taking history, performing basic exams including focused neurological and musculoskletal exams which are practical and useful. However, the "Radiology" chapter needs more spine images since spinal pain from neck to low back is what we see most from chronic pain population. I was surprised to find that it does not have a cervical MRI in this chapter. The chapter on `Differential Neural Blockade" is informative, although the clinical utility of these blocks in clinical practice is questionable.

Part V consists of three sections, A, B, C respectively.

Section A includes chapters on "Pharmacological Techniques", "Pharmacokinetics of Analgesics" and "Neuropsychiatric Drug use in Pain Management" which are well written. Among them, the discussion on opioid analgesics is very useful in clinical practice, especially in the settings of management of acute pain, based on my own personal experience.

Section B contains chapters on procedural approaches of commonly performed interventional procedures including from head to toe peripheral nerve blocks, epidural nerve blocks and sympathetic nerve blocks. Additionally, it has a chapter on "Organization of Nerve Block Facility" that contains instrumental information on personnel, equipment, supplies, documentations, which is extremely useful for newly established pain clinic that plans to provide interventional services.

Section C, the "Special Techniques" that covers varieties of individual interventional arena such as "Epidural Steroid Injection", "Facet Sydromes and Block", "Spinal Opioid for Acute Pain", "Cryoneurolysis & Radiofrequency Lesioning", "Spinal Cord Stimulation" , "Implanted Drug Delivery Systems" , "Surgical Techniques in Pain Management", "Alternative Pain Medicine" and even "Acupuncture", etc. The chapter on "Spinal Opioid for Acute Pain" helped me tremendously during my Fellowship training while on Acute Pain Services at Univ. of Michigan Health System, managing patients on patient-controlled epidural opioid infusion for post-op pain control. Some of the chapters, e.g., the "Epidural Steroid Injection" can be significantly improved with inclusion of more fluoroscopic picture demonstrating anatomic locations of needle placement, contrast spread pattern, etc. The Chapter on "Radiofrequency Lesioning" needs more illustration with pictures showing needle placement as one can not learn these procedures from reading procedural descriptions. Good quality fluoroscopic pictures work way better than words.

Part VI through Part VIII summarizes outcomes, efficacy and complications of pain management in acute pain, chronic pain, neuropathic pain and cancer pain. It also includes discussion of pain management in emergency room, home care and palliative medicine. Finally, it ends with discussion of pain management of future.

In summary, this is a comprehensive, practical text book of pain management. It is an excellent resource for physicians to gain insight into areas pertinent to pain management practice, such as how to set up pain clinic, how to organize acute pain service, how to organize a procedural facility, etc. I personally benefited from reading it in preparing my Board Examination in the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians(Part II)(Fellow, Interventional Pain Practice, World Institute of Pain).

A must for the pain specialist5
This book is in its third edition. The book is keeping up with the rapidly changing specialty of the Practice of Pain. The current edition has been expanded and extensively revised. The approach is "practical". A must for the practicing Pain Specialist and helpful for the pain patient to understand the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures which are well illustrated.

A good first text on Pain Management...4
This is a very good textbook on invasive pain management techniques, and their utility in clinical practice. The book reads well, is reasonably well illustrated, and includes tables of studies of techniques and their success rates. Additional discussion of the non-invasive medical and physiotherapeutic techniques of pain control for specific disorders are included. The book is multi-authored, with sections by Dr. P. Prithvi Raj, a noted expert in the field. This was the first textbook of Pain Management I purchased for my own clinical practice and it served me well. A new edition is due for 1999. I also would recommend the superb and scholarly Monograph, "Current Review of Pain" edited by the same author. This latter series summarizes the latest developments in the basic sciences and the clinical sciences in Pain Management, is very well illustrated, and the author has gone to the trouble of including an annotated bibliography of the voluminous medical and scientific literature on Pain, enabling the researcher and practitioner to select those articles from Medline most useful to his or her research and/or clinical endeavors.

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Osteoarthritis is a chronic degenerative disease associated with joint pain and loss of joint function. It has an estimated incidence of 4 out of every 100 people and significantly reduces the quality of life in affected individuals. The major symptoms are chronic pain, swelling and stiffness; severe, chronic joint pain is often the central factor that causes patients to seek medical attention. Within the affected joint, there is focal degradation and remodelling of articular cartilage, new bone formation (osteophytes) and mild synovitis.

Several mechanisms are thought to contribute to osteoarthritic joint pain. These include mild synovial inflammation, bone oedema, ligament stretching, osteophyte formation and cartilage-derived mediators. Changes in joint biomechanics and muscle strength also influence the severity and duration of joint pain in osteoarthritis. Within the nervous system, the relative contributions of peripheral afferent nociceptive fibres and central mechanisms remain to be defined, and there is limited information on the phenotype of sensory neurons in the OA joint. Importantly, there is no relation between clinical severity, as measured by radiographic changes, and the presence and severity of joint pain. Patients with severe joint pain may have normal joint architecture as determined by X-ray, whereas patients with considerable evidence of joint remodelling may not have significant joint pain. Treatments for osteoarthritic joint pain include non-steroidal anti-inflammatory compounds, exercise, corrective shoes and surgical intervention. There remains a critical need for improved control of joint pain in osteoarthritis.

This book brings together contributions from key investigators in the area of osteoarthritic joint pain. It covers the clinical presentation of joint pain, the pathways involved in joint pain, osteoarthritis disease processes and pain, experimental models and pain control. The discussions provide insights into the nature of osteoarthritic joint pain, identify key studies needed to advance understanding of the problem, highlight possible intervention points and indicate future pathways towards a better treatment of osteoarthritic joint pain.
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Osteoarthritis is a chronic degenerative disease associated with joint pain and loss of joint function. It has an estimated incidence of 4 out of every 100 people and significantly reduces the quality of life in affected individuals. The major symptoms are chronic pain, swelling and stiffness; severe, chronic joint pain is often the central factor that causes patients to seek medical attention. Within the affected joint, there is focal degradation and remodelling of articular cartilage, new bone formation (osteophytes) and mild synovitis.

Several mechanisms are thought to contribute to osteoarthritic joint pain. These include mild synovial inflammation, bone oedema, ligament stretching, osteophyte formation and cartilage-derived mediators. Changes in joint biomechanics and muscle strength also influence the severity and duration of joint pain in osteoarthritis. Within the nervous system, the relative contributions of peripheral afferent nociceptive fibres and central mechanisms remain to be defined, and there is limited information on the phenotype of sensory neurons in the OA joint. Importantly, there is no relation between clinical severity, as measured by radiographic changes, and the presence and severity of joint pain. Patients with severe joint pain may have normal joint architecture as determined by X-ray, whereas patients with considerable evidence of joint remodelling may not have significant joint pain. Treatments for osteoarthritic joint pain include non-steroidal anti-inflammatory compounds, exercise, corrective shoes and surgical intervention. There remains a critical need for improved control of joint pain in osteoarthritis.

This book brings together contributions from key investigators in the area of osteoarthritic joint pain. It covers the clinical presentation of joint pain, the pathways involved in joint pain, osteoarthritis disease processes and pain, experimental models and pain control. The discussions provide insights into the nature of osteoarthritic joint pain, identify key studies needed to advance understanding of the problem, highlight possible intervention points and indicate future pathways towards a better treatment of osteoarthritic joint pain.

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Osteoarthritis is a chronic degenerative disease associated with joint pain and loss of joint function. It has an estimated incidence of four in every 100 people and significantly reduces the quality of life in affected individuals. The major symptoms are chronic joint pain, swelling and stiffness; severe pain is often the key factor causing patients to seek medical attention. Within the affected joint there is focal degradation and remodelling of articular cartilage, new bone formation and mild synovitis.

Several mechanisms are thought to contribute to osteoarthritic joint pain, including mild synovial inflammation, bone oedema, ligament stretching, osteophyte formation and cartilage-derived mediators. Changes in joint biomechanics and muscle strength may also affect the severity and duration of the joint pain. From a nervous system perspective, the relative contributions of peripheral afferent nociceptive fibres and central mechanisms remain to be defined. Importantly, there is a clear disconnect between clinical severity, as measured radiographically, and the presence and severity of joint pain. Treatments for osteoarthritic joint pain include non-steroidal anti-inflammatory compounds, exercise and surgical intervention. There remains a critical need for improved control of joint pain in osteoarthritis.

This book covers the clinical presentation of joint pain, the cellular pathways involved, osteoarthritis disease processes and pain, experimental models and pain control. The discussions provide insights into the nature of joint pain, identify key studies needed to advance understanding, highlight possible intervention points and indicate opportunities for better treatment of OA joint pain.

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A cutting-edge collection of diverse readily reproducible techniques for dissecting the molecular mechanisms of pain transduction. These methods employ a variety of multidisciplinary approaches ranging from animal pain models and single neutron selection to in vitro single-cell mRNA amplification. The collection includes not only standard and cutting-edge methods, but also novel techniques only recently applied to pain research. The protocols follow the successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ series format, each one offering step-by-step laboratory instructions, an introduction outlining the principle behind the technique, lists of equipment and reagents, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
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* Published on: 2004-05-15
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Univ. of California, Orange. Describes in step-by-step detail diverse and novel techniques for dissecting the molecular mechanisms of pain transduction. Offers reproducible methods to study pain transduction for researchers. DNLM: Pain-physiopathology--Laboratory Manuals.

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The simple, practical and easy-to-apply ideas in this guide will help business owners identify the main reasons behind their lack of work-life balance and, most importantly, how to fix it. The experiences, tips, and coping mechanisms of thousands of business owners around the world who were consulted in the writing of the book are compiled into one easy reference that can get even the most out of control business owner back on track. The tips can be implemented quickly and with little or no cost, allowing readers to become the boss in both their businesses and their lives.

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* Amazon Sales Rank: #1138044 in Books
* Published on: 2007-11-01
* Original language: English
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* 240 pages

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About the Author
Andrew Griffiths is a professional marketing consultant. His company, The Marketing Professionals, provides practical and creative marketing solutions to both large corporations and small business operators. He is the author of several business books, including the 101 . . . series and Secrets to Building a Winning Business.
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A life changing book!5
To have the ability to write a book like this and make it credible you are required to be have

a) lived a life like Andrew Griffiths
b) have the balls to tell people the truth and
c) chunk it down so everyone (and I mean everyone) can get something out of it!

This is a book that changes lives. If you want the same old, same old, life, then dont go near this book.

If you want to know how to dramatically increase the amount you suck out of life, then run (dont walk) to get 101 Ways to Have a Business and a Life

Should've Been Called "Every Entrepreneur's Bible!"5
This weekend I picked up three books on time management at Borders...Two of them I've heard of before, written by quite well known authors and business experts.

The third one I grabbed at the last moment before I headed to the check-out, and I am so glad I did!

Andrew Griffith's "101 Ways to Have a Business and a Life" is an amazing read! It's not just a time management book. It should've been called "Every Entrepeneur's Bible!"

It covers everything from managing your time and money to managing your relationships, health, employees, vendors, customers, family, kids, and much much more...I swallowed it in about 3 hours (ok, I skipped some section, but that's how I always read anyway).

The other two books were great, but this one stood out for one big reason: it was based on the author's true story of how his business life took a toll on his relationships and his health, and how he made a decision to "wake up" and realize that his business is "slowly killing" him.

Personal story - that's what's unique about this book, and makes his message so much more compelling. Andrew is also being very candid - he shares the things that most people are embarrased to admit even to themselves, and offers simple solutions.

The book is very easy to read, split into 1-2 page segments, just right for busy entrepreneurs.

I think the book cover doesn't do it justice...I'd love to see Andrew's photo on the front cover!

Go to your local book store and get it today!

P.S. If you're a life coach working with business owners, this is a great book to create your own coaching program around....You can even partner with the author to coach people based on his ideas!

P.P.S. Ok, I am off for a 2nd walk today...Andrew's words are magically inspiring!

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* Amazon Sales Rank: #33207 in Books
* Published on: 2003-03-13
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 304 pages

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In Presenting to Win: Persuading Your Audience Every Time, the world's #1 presentation consultant shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences--and move them to action. Jerry Weissman shows presenters of all kinds how to dump tho

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In Presenting to Win: Persuading Your Audience Every Time, the world's #1 presentation consultant shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences--and move them to action. Jerry Weissman shows presenters of all kinds how to dump tho

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In Presenting to Win: Persuading Your Audience Every Time, the world's #1 presentation consultant shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences--and move them to action. Jerry Weissman shows presenters of all kinds how to dump those PowerPoint templates once and for all--and learn to tell compelling stories that focus on what's in it for their listeners. Drawing on dozens of practical examples and real case studies, Weissman shows presenters how to identify their real goals and messages before they even open PowerPoint; how to stay focused on what their listeners really care about; and how to capture their audiences in the first crucial 90 seconds. From bullets and graphics to the effective, sparing use of special effects, Weissman covers all the practical mechanics of effective presentation--and walks readers through every step of building a Power Presentation, from brainstorming through delivery. Unlike the techniques in other presentation books, this book's easy, step-by-step approach has been proven with billions of dollars on the line, in hundreds of IPO road shows before the world's most jaded investors. Customer Reviews

Presenting to Win is an excellent tool4
This book is an excellent tool. It focuses very specifically on effectively creating a business presentation. The tips were valuable to be and I have been creating presentations for several years. It will also be very easy to reference in the future.

Homerun after homerun after homerun ...4
This book is about making CONSCIOUS decisions for balancing the story board itself for hard facts, visual, ethical and psychological aspects, politicily correctness etc. but of course doesnt stop there.

The book shows and discusses which elements you need to convey your story and why you use certain presentation technics over others to achieve your goals.

The book is devided in 14 chapters. Each chapter is focused on either

a) How to create or develop your basic story or on
b) How to enhance it

(by using the described technics and its implications and reactons it will provoke).

What makes this book standing out is the careful analyzation of the aspects that came into play when giving an presentation.

That obviously includes the analytical skills itself but also the time and effort to explicitely mention and discuss (dis)advantages of each element.


The carefully chosen presentation samples will be disassembled throughout the book and taken apart into its peaces, analyzed, explained and put back together.

Where required, the example will be (dis)assembled several times to bring the points across.

Its the analysation of those presentations and its aspects to a granular level and putting the gained knowledge into a conscious presentation creation process that make the book so valuable.

Most books tell you just how to use software to make graphics etc. but this book tells you what you have to present to your adience to actually win them over.

The fact that the many aspects are explicitely explained helps you visualize the options you have at your disposal and the reason why you chose one presentation form over another.

While this book focuses on presentations that show off your assets and the art of persuasion. There is also a companion book "In the line of Fire" which focuses more on the defense to hardball questions.

I do also want to recommend a third book - "Dan Roams: Back of the Napkin" which focuses more on the technical aspects of how to find your story, and a strong focus on visualizing it fool prove and providing rock solid hard facts that wont be beaten.

What Jerry*s books does express very well is the fact that giving a presentation is like being an athlet.
You will have to exercise "verbalize" regularly to be in top form when it counts.

Good luck to you !!

You will never present the same way again...and your audiece will thank you5
Jerry Weissman is one of those rare people who has written an authoritative sounding book about how to present and has the real experience and background to justify every claim he makes.

The book starts with the premise that the presenter must focus on the audience and that he must make them focus on him. He must understand the mental point they are at (Point A) and moves them to Point B. He must understand what is in it for them (WIIFY) and constantly use it as he constructs every slide to walk them to Point B. He must also understand the setting of the audience, and his main points of argument. Finally, he must tie those points together with a flow structure that fits his argument.

That's the first half of the book and as someone who has through some awful presentations, I can only wish reading this book were the equivalent of a driver's license for public speakers.

The back half of the book draws on his background in television and employs standard cinematic techniques to improve the appearance of PowerPoint. It's easy to overlook this part, but it makes a huge difference as well.

I've now had a chance to see people who have used these techniques for years present, and it makes a huge difference. I have also seen someone present in a tough situation using these techniques for the first time. This person is level-headed and not given to fads. His comment? "I wish I had run to Jerry's book ten years earlier."

If you speak in public, this is the one book you have to read, and re-read. It is common sensical, based in fact, and surprisingly intuitive.

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This book demystifies the foreign exchange market by focusing on the people who comprise it. Drawing on the expertise of the very professionals whose decisions help shape the market, Thomas Oberlechner describes the highly interdependent relationship between financial decision makers and news providers, showing that the assumption that the foreign exchange market is purely economic and rational has to be replaced by a more complex market psychology.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #128340 in Books
* Published on: 2004-12-07
* Original language: English
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* Binding: Hardcover
* 278 pages

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“…there are enough gems in there to keep you reading on.” (The Technical Analyst, March/April, 30th March 2005)

"...a fascinating and entertaining read..." (Economic Issues, June 2006)

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This book demystifies the foreign exchange market by focusing on the people who comprise it. Drawing on the expertise of the very professionals whose decisions help shape the market, Thomas Oberlechner describes the highly interdependent relationship between financial decision makers and news providers, showing that the assumption that the foreign exchange market is purely economic and rational has to be replaced by a more complex market psychology.

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The Psychology of the Foreign Exchange Market.

This book offers a fascinating understanding of the decisions that determine exchange rates. It sheds light on the psychology behind spectacular market phenomena as well as on subliminal processes in daily trading decisions.

In an understandable and engaging analysis of his research with many of the world's leading market participants, Thomas Oberlechner draws on the first-hand expertise of the professionals whose decisions shape the market. Expanding the field of behavioral finance, The Psychology of the Foreign Exchange Market incorporates new insights from a variety of psychological perspectives - ranging from social market dynamics; the role of affects and intuition in trading decisions; cognitive biases of traders; psychological risk-taking phenomena; subjective attitudes in market expectations; the interdependent relationship between trading institutions and the financial news media; the dynamics of market rumors, and personality characteristics of successful traders; to the role of metaphors in the decisions of participants and the nature of the market.
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Essentail reading for Forex Dealers5
I am a veteran forex dealer and in-house trainer of our dealers; this book is required reading. From the opening quote in the introduction of the book you are introduced to the concept that "psychology" is everything in dealing. Believe it! Though the book provides no canned solutions to dealing, it does give you the essential foundations to begin to build your own dealing models.

A good dissertation may be, but not a good trading book for sure2
If you are interested in the result of a survey done through over 300 FX traders in 5 countries or over 200 bibliographies for your own thesis, you will be absolutely delighted. If you want to sharpen your trading edge or simply to have fun (like what Fiasco, Pit Bull, Liar's Poker and Wall Street Meat do), you will be very disappointed.

I would like to give you an example. In page 154 the author listed a table of importance ratings of successful trader characteristics (n=291, 1=unimportant, 4=very important) of 23 items ranging from Quick Reaction Time (mean=3.71, sd=0.50) & Discipline (mean=3.65, sd=0.55) to Computer Literacy (mean=2.54, sd=0.78) & Social Skills (mean=2.52, sd=0.74). Some might find it helpful. As a veteran pro FX trader and trading book lover who read to sharpen my edge in one of the most competitive market, I dont.

Perhaps the author had just tried too hard to post the findings of his survey into a book that the chapters and thus content are quite disoriented (I strongly suggest you to take a look of the content page available on Amazon). Sorry to say that there are plenty of much better trading psychology books in the market (though not dedicated to FX, but still relevant and applicable). IMHO, "Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing" by Hersh Shefrin and "The psychology of Finance by Lars Tvede" should be better choices.

p.s. I had overlooked the fact that the two five star reviews (this should be the third review of this book) were written by two one-review-only readers. Shame on me!

A Must Read for Any Trader or Investor5
This book is valuable to any person trading any market. It enforces the thought that you bring yourself to the market, be it currencies, futures, stocks, or bonds. A person is the product of their environment, culture, parents, education and experiences which influences their perception of the markets. It is very difficult to observe what the market is doing without observing what it is doing to you. All markets are a mind game.

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The same critical information top business schools teach
Based on Professor Stralser's popular seminar series, MBA in a Day? is specifically designed for the busy professional (physician, attorney, architect, nonprofit executive, etc.) or entrepreneur/small business owner, who needs to know about the "business-side" of their practice, organization or business. With comprehensive coverage of vital business topics, important concepts and proven strategies taught at top graduate schools, this handy book offers a complete business education without the hassle of enrolling in an MBA program. Divided into four sections covering management and policy; economics, finance, and accounting; marketing; and systems and processes; this straightforward guide is easy to navigate and simple to use. Packed with illustrative examples, helpful anecdotes, and real-world case studies, this commonsense guide covers everything busy professionals would learn at the very best business schools-if they only had the time.
Steven Stralser, PhD (Phoenix, AZ), is Clinical Professor and Managing Director, The Global Entrepreneurship Center at Thunderbird: The American Graduate School of International Management and founder and CEO of The Center for Professional Development, Inc., an organization dedicated to post-graduate training and education of today's professionals.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #373276 in Books
* Published on: 2004-09-24
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A step-by-step guide to developing cash flow and long-term wealth in real estate with little or no money down

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Based on Steven Stralser’s popular seminar series, MBA in a Day® offers concise, comprehensive coverage of the vital business topics, important concepts, and proven strategies taught at top business schools. For busy professionals, this straightforward guide offers a comprehensive business education without the time and money of graduate school.

Though suitable for anyone, this book is especially helpful for professional service providers–such as doctors and lawyers–who have extensive training in their profession, but want to learn the business skills necessary to manage a practice or small business. MBA in a Day fills the gap for those who need to understand fundamental business principles they were never taught during their professional education in specialized fields such as law, medicine, engineering, and architecture.

Small business owners and entrepreneurs will find here the same tactics and strategies that full-time MBA students use to get ahead. These classic business essentials are written in plain English, adaptable to any industry or profession, and applicable to today’s complex economic world. Packed with illustrative examples, helpful anecdotes, and real-world case studies, it’s useful as both a guide to learning the fundamentals of business and as a handy reference on your bookshelf.

Divided into four sections–covering management and policy; economics, finance, and accounting; marketing; and systems and processes–this handy resource is easy to navigate and simple to use.

Inside, you’ll find MBA-level advice on these topics and many more:

* Human resources and personal interaction
* Ethics and leadership skills
* Fair negotiation tactics
* Basic business accounting practices
* Fundamentals of economics
* Marketing strategies
* Advertising and promotion
* Effective communication and presentations
* Project management
* Information technology
* Using the Internet for business purposes
* Quality control measures

For professionals focused on the day-to-day challenges of running a successful practice, operating a small business, or launching a new venture, MBA in a Day presents the essential principles and concepts taught at today’s best business schools.

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Praise for MBA IN A DAY®

"Dr. Stralser’s book, MBA in a Day is must reading for every physician who is in a management role, anticipates management responsibilities, or functions in a private, solo, or group practice setting. Insights into the fundamentals of management, marketing, personnel management, finance, and economics will add to one’s satisfaction and understanding of his or her contribution in the delivery of modern medicine."
–Anthony F. Vuturo, MD, MPH, FACPE
Senior Vice President, Canyon Ranch Health Resort
Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona College of Medicine

"After thirteen years in the National Hockey League, making the transition from professional athlete to entrepreneur has been eased by the practical knowledge that I have implemented from Professor Stralser’s MBA in a Day."
–Jim Johnson
Cofounder, FlexxCoach, e-learning for coaches and athletes
Former National Hockey League player

"Increased demands, limited time, and higher expectations challenge executives as never before. MBA in a Day is an excellent resource to cut through all the noise and focus on fundamental guiding business principles."
–David E. Ratcliffe
Director, The Merrill Lynch Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Management

"Steve Stralser is a master teacher. An MBA from Wharton or Harvard will cost you an arm and a leg. Read this terrific book and invest the money you would have spent on tuition into your own business."
–Robert Kramer, PhD
Director, Executive Education Programs
School of Public Affairs, American University

"The ‘fundamental’ business principles that Professor Stralser teaches in MBA in a Day are integral to sustaining a fast-growing business by any entrepreneur not formally trained in these concepts."
–Kenny Kramm
Founder, FlavorX
An Inc. 500 Company
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Too little2
Goes a mile wide and an inch deep. I would rather the same book but each chapter by an expert in that area with a lesson/example.

Easy and Substantial5
I find this book very easy to read. It is fraught with valuable, profound, substantial insights. It will rapidly acquaintance people who are not yet familar with MBA topics and it will solidify the knowledge of veterans in these issues. So, either way you win. Also, even though this book is intended mainly for service providers (doctors, lawyers), it can be easily extrapolated to any managerial work at whatever stage. Dr Jusuf Hariman, Manuscript Assessor, Fellowship of Australian Writers.

Also serves as great inspiration if you ever thought about doing your MBA5
The hidden gem in this book, for those of you who don't have formal business education and always wondered whether the MBA was attainable for you, is that this book actually serves a wonderful second purpose. MBA in a Day allows you to "kick the tires", giving you a high-level overview of what you 'should' expect to cover during MBA study. Having read this book, I found the inspiration to learn more; as such I have enrolled in the MBA program where I already completed a masters in IT.

My only issue with MBA in a Day is that I would have loved to have seen a chapter on Entrepreneurship-- which would be relevant to certain MBA-wannabes (like me), as well as the existing professionals (the main audience of the book) hoping to launch their own private practices.

Neverthelesss, Dr. Stralser presents a wide variety of topics (including HR, Organizational Behaviour, Leadership, Ethics, Accounting/Finance, Economics, Marketing, Project Management, IS and Quality Management) in such an approachable way, making seemingly daunting subject matter easy to digest and appreciate.

A definite buy, I am glad I picked up this book.... if you are thinking about doing your MBA, you should too.

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