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-book 9780865681743 0865681740 us Xing Yi Nei Gong: Xing Yi Health Maintenance and Internal Strength Development Xing Yi Nei Gong: Xing Yi Health Maintenance and Internal Strength Development Paperback $21.95 $14.05 4.5 This is the most complete book on the art of xing yi (hsing Yi) available. It includes the complete xing yi history and lineage going back eight generations; manuscripts handed down from famous practitioners Dai Long Bang and Li Neng Ran; 16 health maintenance and power development exercises; qigong (chi kung) exerices; xing yi long spear power training exercises; and more. Unique Publications 1998-02-10 12:00:00 +0000 2007-02-03 02:22:25 -0500 Dan Miller/ Tim Cartmell 200
-book 0752064712459 073571245X us Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design Paperback Web Site Design/ Internet Publishing/ HTML - General/ jp-unknown1/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007 $45.00 $9.99 4.5 There are several other books on the market that serve as in-depth technical guides or reference books for CSS. None, however, take a more hands-on approach and use practical examples to teach readers how to solve the problems they face in designing with CSS - until now. Eric Meyer provides a variety of carefully crafted projects that teach how to use CSS and why particular methods were chosen. The web site includes all of the files needed to complete the tutorials in the book. In addition, bonus information is be posted. New Riders Press 2002-06-28 12:00:00 +0000 2007-02-03 02:21:00 -0500 Eric A. Meyer 352
-book 9780961454739 0961454733 us Art & Fear Art & Fear Paperback Study & Teaching/ Criticism $12.95 $7.25 4.5 "This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially-statistically speaking-there aren't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius."
--from the Introduction/ Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves
both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is expeienced by artmakers themselves./ This is not your typical self-help book. This is a book written by artists, for artists -- it's about what it feels like when artists sit down at their easel or keyboard, in their studio or performance space, trying to do the work they need to do. First published in 1994, Art & Fear quickly became an underground classic. Word-of-mouth response alone-now enhanced by internet posting-has placed it among the best-selling books on artmaking and creativity nationally./ Art & Fear has attracted a remarkably diverse audience, ranging from beginning to accomplished artists in every medium, and including an exceptional concentration among students and teachers. The original Capra Press edition of Art & Fear sold 80,000 copies./ An excerpt:/
Today, more than it was however many years ago, art is hard because you have to keep after it so consistently. On so many different fronts. For so little external reward. Artists become veteran artists only by making peace not just with themselves, but with a huge range of issues. You have to find your work.../ Image Continuum Press 2001-04-01 12:00:00 +0000 2007-02-03 02:20:32 -0500 David Bayles/ Ted Orland 122
-book 9780135974445 0135974445 us Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices Hardcover C & C++ Windows Programming/ Object-Oriented Design/ Software Development/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007 $68.20 $38.50 4.5 Prentice Hall 2002-10-15 12:00:00 +0000 2007-02-03 02:20:25 -0500 Robert C. Martin 552
-book 9780312275631 0312275633 us Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance Paperback Meditation/ Mysticism/ Self-Help/ Spiritualism/ Osho/ Personal Transformation $11.95 $7.61 4.5 Underlying all meditation techniques, including martial arts-and in fact underlying all great athletic performances-is a quality of being awake and present to the moment, a quality that Osho calls awareness. Once we can identify and understand what this quality of awareness is, we have the key to self-mastery in virtually every area of our lives.According to great masters like Lao Tzu or Buddha, most of us move through our lives like sleepwalkers. Never really present in what we are doing, never fully alert to our environment, and not even aware of what motivates us to do and say the things we do.At the same time, all of us have experienced moments of awareness-or awakening, to use another-in extraordinary circumstances. On the road, in a sudden and
unexpected accident, time seems to stop and one is suddenly aware of every movement, every sound, every thought. Or in moments that touch us deeply-welcoming a new baby into the world for the first time, or being with someone at the moment of death.Awareness, says Osho, is the key to being self-directed, centered, and free in every aspect of our lives. In this book, Osho teaches how to live life more attentively, mindfully, and meditatively, with love, caring and consciousness.OSHO challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India. More than a decade after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ag
es in virtually every country of the world. St. Martin's Griffin 2001-12-10 12:00:00 +0000 2007-02-03 02:20:16 -0500 Osho 192
-book 9780690012903 069001290X us Flower, Moon, Snow: A Book of Haiku Flower, Moon, Snow: A Book of Haiku Library Binding 20th Century/ Japanese & Haiku/ United States $12.89 $4.40 Crowell 1977-02-04 12:00:00 +0000 2007-02-03 02:19:27 -0500 Kazue Mizumura 48
-book 9780060958404 0060958405 us Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language Paperback Logic & Language/ Grammar/ Linguistics/ Neuroscience/ Cognitive $15.00 $3.50 4 Human languages are capable of expressing a literally endless number of different ideas. How do we manage it--so effortlessly that we scarcely ever stop to think about it? In Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, a look at the simple concepts that we use to devise works as complex as love sonnets and tax laws, renowned neuroscientist and linguist Steven Pinker shows us how. The latest linguistic research suggests that each of us stores a limited (though large) number of words and word-parts in memory and manipulates them with a much smaller number of rules to produce every writing and utterance, and Pinker explains every step of the way with engaging good humor./ Pinker's enthusiasm for the subject infects the reader, particularly as he emphasizes
the relation between how we communicate and how we think. What does it mean that a small child who has never heard the word wug can tell a researcher that when one wug meets another, there are two wugs? Some rule must be telling the child that English plurals end in -s, which also explains mistakes like mouses. Is our communication linked inextricably with our thinking? Pinker says yes, and it's hard to disagree. Words and Rules is an excellent introduction to and overview of current thinking about language, and will greatly reward the careful reader with new ways of thinking about how we think, talk, and write. --Rob Lightner/ Harper Perennial 2000-01-15 12:00:00 +0000 2007-02-03 02:18:58 -0500 Steven Pinker 368
-book 9781592400874 1592400876 us Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Hardcover Essays/ Grammar/ Reference/ Writing Skills $19.95 $1.84 4 A bona fide publishing phenomenon, Lynne Truss's now classic #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes its paperback debut after selling over 3 million copies worldwide in hardcover./ We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species./ In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upse
t when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with. BACKCOVER: Praise for Lynne Truss and Eats, Shoots & Leaves:

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“Truss's scholarship is impressive and never dry.”
—Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review/ Gotham 2004-04-12 12:00:00 +0000 2007-02-03 02:18:24 -0500 Lynne Truss 209
-book 9780142000281 0142000280 us Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity Paperback Health & Stress/ Time Management/ Guides/ Labor & Industrial Relations/ Motivational/ Office Skills/ Creativity/ Self-Esteem/ Stress Management $15.00 $7.01 4.5 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 in
to 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 straightfo
rward, 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/ Penguin (Non-Classics) 2002-12-31 12:00:00 +0000 2007-02-03 02:16:57 -0500 David Allen 267
-book 9780140195682 0140195688 us Sitting: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation Sitting: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation Paperback Rituals & Practice $12.00 $2.90 4.5 Penguin (Non-Classics) 1998-05-01 12:00:00 +0000 2007-02-03 00:20:13 -0500 Diana St. Ruth 96
-book 9780060922245 0060922249 us Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life Paperback Personal Transformation/ New Age/ Spiritual/ Pastoral Theology $14.00 $0.01 4 Care of the Soul is considered to be one of the best primers for soul work ever written. Thomas Moore, an internationally renowned theologian and former Catholic monk, offers a philosophy for living that involves accepting our humanity rather than struggling to transcend it. By nurturing the soul in everyday life, Moore shows how to cultivate dignity, peace, and depth of character. For example, in addressing the importance of daily rituals he writes, "Ritual maintains the world's holiness. As in a dream a small object may assume significance, so in a life that is animated by ritual there are no insignificant things." This is the eloquence that helped reintroduce the sacred into everyday
language and contemporary values. Harper Paperbacks 1994-01-26 12:00:00 +0000 2007-02-03 00:19:54 -0500 Thomas Moore 336
-book 9780977616602 0977616606 us Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers) Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers) Paperback Object-Oriented Design/ Internet $32.95 $22.46 4.5 Rails is large, powerful, and new. How do you use it effectively? How do you harness the power? And, most important, how do you get high quality, real-world applications written?/ From the latest Ajax effects to time-saving automation tips for your development process, Rails Recipes will show you how the experts have already solved the problems you have./ • Use generators to automate repetitive coding tasks./ • Create sophisticated role-based authentication schemes./ • Add live search and live preview to your site./ • Run tests when anyone checks code in./ • How to create tagged data the right way./ • and many, many more.../ Owning Rails Recipes is like having the best Rails programmers sitting next to you while you code./ Pragmatic Bookshelf 01-06
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+game 0711719721123 B00006Z7HU us ATV Offroad Fury 2 ATV Offroad Fury 2 Video Game/ CD-ROM Online/ Bike/ Video Games $19.99 $4.40 4 ATV Offroad Fury 2 provides expansive off-road racing gameplay packed with more courses, modes, tricks, and ATVs, plus online gameplay via the network adapter to heighten the racing experience. Players will choose from more than 20 licensed and team-sponsored ATVs from top-tier manufacturers and off-road sponsors. Every featured ATV will be true to spec, allowing for realistic handling and reactions in every situation. Sony Computer Entertainment 20-03-2003 07-02-2007 5 PlayStation2 Teen
+book 9780966075007 0966075005 us Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary Paperback Chinese/ Polyglot/ Dictionaries; Polyglot $19.95 $18.00 4.5 This dictionary is designed to help students understand, appreciate and remember Chinese characters. It has the following features: -Every character entry includes a brief traditional Chinese etymology. -Genealogical charts highlight the connections between characters, showing the creation of more than 4000 characters from less than 200 simple pictographs and ideographs. -Mandarin standards in China and Taiwan are distinguished. -Simplified forms for each character are given. -Character entries list all words which use the character in any position, allowing a word to be found even if the first character is unknown. -English definitions are referenced in an English-Chinese index. -A word pronunciation index allows students to directly search for an overheard word without
having to guess the initial character. -A stroke count index lists every character by number of strokes. Zhongwen.Com 01-08-1998 07-02-2007 550
+book 9780195840971 0195840976 us Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary Paperback English (All)/ Chinese/ Linguistics $12.95 $3.00 3.5 With nearly 20,000 entries in each, this bilingual dictionary is ideal for travelers and students of Chinese or English. Among the dictionary's many features are:/ *Simplified Chinese characters as well as Pinyin/ romanization / *Pronunciation using international phonetic symbols/ *Numerous examples of usage in both languages/ *Appendices including consonants and vowels of the/ Chinese phonetic alphabet, and names and / abbreviations of China's provinces, regions,/ and municipalities/ *Handy pocket-sized format Oxford University Press, USA 01-07-1994 11-02-2007 1114
+movie 0025192022425 0783226985 us Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story DVD Biography/ Drama/ Action & Adventure/ Documentary $14.98 $5.62 4 This enjoyable and touching biography of martial-arts film star Bruce Lee stars Jason Scott Lee (no relation), an actor with a lively face and natural intensity, who makes every moment of this film compelling. Directed by Rob Cohen, Dragon traces Bruce Lee's slow rise over myriad obstacles--most of them race-based--to become an international superstar in films. Lee's origins are oddly set in San Francisco instead of his real home in Seattle, but then again there is plenty of artistic license going on as Cohen explores the actor's psyche through some powerful fantasy sequences. Lauren Holly is good as Lee's wife, Linda (whose book about her late husband inspired this movie). A scene involving Bruce's rescue of son Brandon (who died in a filmmaking accident in 1993) from a murderous spirit is plain spooky. The
special-edition DVD release has a widescreen presentation, director interview, featurette, screen tests, closed captioning, optional French soundtrack, and optional Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh Universal Studios 01-07-1998 07-02-2007 Aki Aleong/ Eric Bruskotter/ John Cheung/ Chao Li Chi/ Sam Hau/ Lauren Holly/ Clyde Kusatsu/ Nancy Kwan/ Michael Learned/ Jason Scott Lee/ Kay Tong Lim/ Sterling Macer Jr./ Iain M. Parker/ Ong Soo Han/ Michelle Tennant/ Sven-Ole Thorsen/ Robert Wagner/ Luoyong Wang/ Ric Young Closed-captioned/ Color/ Letterboxed/ Widescreen/ NTSC/ 2.35:1 PG-13 07-05-1993 120
+movie 0018111924795 B0009IW92A us The Essential Sherlock Holmes The Essential Sherlock Holmes DVD 8 Mystery/ Drama/ Mystery & Suspense/ Sherlock Holmes $29.99 $8.95 3.5 Dressed to Kill Terror By Night The Woman in Green Sherlock Holmes And the Secret Weapon A Study in Scarlet Silver Blaze Sherlock Holmes TV Series Delta 07-06-2005 09-02-2007 Essential Sherlock Holmes Box set/ Color/ NTSC NR
+book 0073999151893 1569221863 us Guitar Scale Guru: The Scale Book - Your Guide for Success! Guitar Scale Guru: The Scale Book - Your Guide for Success! Paperback Guitar/ Instruction & Study/ Techniques $14.95 $9.46 4.5 All of the essential diagrams, drawings and information concerning theory, scales, and their uses in one easy-to-use book! Covers the five essential scales for today's guitarists - major, major pentatonic, minor, minor pentatonic and blues - with a unique Linking System that makes it easy to understand scales like a pro! Creative Concepts 01-02-2000 11-02-2007 168
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+book 9781556152115 1556152116 us Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (Tempus) Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (Tempus) Paperback Careers/ Compilers $9.95 $19.92 5 Tempus Books 07-02-1989 07-02-2007 400
+book 9781904978367 1904978363 us Time Out Amsterdam (Time Out Amsterdam Guide) Time Out Amsterdam (Time Out Amsterdam Guide) Paperback Guidebooks/ Amsterdam/ Time Out Travel $19.95 $0.99 3.5 Europe's most infamous city remains one of its most popular, and not without good reason: between its world-class art museums, its eminent canals that are perfect for wandering, and its coffee shops that don't exactly specialize in coffee, its variety is glorious indeed. However, with one of Europe's more forward-thinking cultural scenes and striking new architectural developments in IJburg and the Bijlmermeer, there's much more here to enjoy than the clichés; written, researched and edited entirely by locals, the Time Out Amsterdam guide tells travelers all about it. Highlights include Amsterdam after dark - the best restaurants, bars, and nightclubs in the city; an unmatched section on the city's cultural scene including galleries, performance art, classical music, an
d theater; and trips beyond Amsterdam to the flower auction in Aalsmeer, the cheese market at Gouda, and the windmills of Alblasserdam. Time Out Publishing 10-07-2005 18-02-2007 320
+book 9780865470804 0865470804 us Taking the Path of Zen (Taking the Path of Zen Ppr) Taking the Path of Zen (Taking the Path of Zen Ppr) Paperback Zen $12.00 $4.40 4 There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both guides and inspires. In Taking the Path of Zen Robert Aitken presents the practice, lifestyle, rationale, and ideology of Zen Buddhism with remarkable clarity. / / The foundation of Zen is the practice of zazen, or mediation, and Aitken Roshi insists that everything flows from the center. He discusses correct breathing, posture, routine, teacher-student relations, and koan study, as well as common problems and milestones encountered in the process. Throughout the book the author returns to zazen, offering further advice and more advanced techniques. The orientation extends to various religious attitudes and includes detailed discussions of the Three Treasures and the Ten Precepts of Zen Buddhism./ Taking
the Path of Zen will serve as orientation and guide for anyone who is drawn to the ways of Zen, from the simply curious to the serious Zen student. / North Point Press 01-01-1982 06-02-2007 Robert Aitken 150
+book 9780963177513 0963177516 us Bubishi: Martial Art Spirit Bubishi: Martial Art Spirit Paperback Martial Arts $34.95 $61.18 5 Bubishi-Martial Art Spirit is the secret karate text of the Okinawan Masters. Guarded for centuries, this mystical book has finally been completely translated into English. The BUBISHI was cherished by Miyagi Chojun, the founder of Goju Ryu, Funakoshi Gichin, founder of Shotokan and Mabuni Kenwa, founder of Shito Ryu karate. It includes Dim Mak (The Death Touch), pressure points, knockout and killing techniques , 48 essential self defense applications, Chinese cures for Martial arts injuries and much more!!! Yamazato Pubns 12-02-1993 06-02-2007 George Alexander
+book 9780142000281 0142000280 us Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity Paperback Health & Stress/ Time Management/ Guides/ Labor & Industrial Relations/ Motivational/ Office Skills/ Creativity/ Self-Esteem/ Stress Management $15.00 $7.01 4.5 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 int
o 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 straightfor
ward, 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/ Penguin (Non-Classics) 31-12-2002 03-02-2007 David Allen 267
+book 0076092024163 0131422464 us Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, Second Edition Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, Second Edition Hardcover Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007 $54.99 $23.99 5 Prentice Hall Ptr 10-05-2003 07-02-2007 1 Deepak Alur/ Dan Malks/ John Crupi 650
+book 9780471202820 0471202827 us Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process Paperback Object-Oriented Design/ Software Development/ Quality Control/ Computers & Internet/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007 $34.99 $24.39 3.5 The first book to cover Agile Modeling, a new modeling technique created specifically for XP projects eXtreme Programming (XP) has created a buzz in the software development community-much like Design Patterns did several years ago. Although XP presents a methodology for faster software development, many developers find that XP does not allow for modeling time, which is critical to ensure that a project meets its proposed requirements. They have also found that standard modeling techniques that use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) often do not work with this methodology. In this innovative book, Software Development co
lumnist Scott Ambler presents Agile Modeling (AM)-a technique that he created for modeling XP projects using pieces of the UML and Rational's Unified Process (RUP). Ambler clearly explains AM, and shows readers how to incorporate AM, UML, and RUP into their development projects with the help of numerous case studies integrated throughout the book./ • AM was created by the author for modeling XP projects-an element lacking in the original XP design/ • The XP community and its creator have embraced AM, which should give this book strong market acceptance/ Companion Web site at www.agilemodeling.com features updates, links to XP and AM resources, and ongoing case studies about agile modeling./ John Wiley & Sons 01-02-2001 07-02-2007 Scott W. Ambler/ Ron Jeffries 224
+book 9780262012102 0262012103 us A Semantic Web Primer (Cooperative Information Systems) A Semantic Web Primer (Cooperative Information Systems) Hardcover Web Site Design/ Storage/ Internet $42.00 $25.98 4.5 The development of the Semantic Web, with machine-readable content, has the potential to revolutionize the World Wide Web and its use. A Semantic Web Primer provides an introduction and guide to this emerging field, describing its key ideas, languages, and technologies. Suitable for use as a textbook or for self-study by professionals, it concentrates on undergraduate-level fundamental concepts and techniques that will enable readers to proceed with building applications on their own. It includes exercises, project descriptions, and annotated references to relevant online materials. A Semantic Web Primer is the only available book on the Semantic Web to include a systematic treatment of the different languages (XML, RDF, OWL, and rules) and technologies (expli
cit metadata, ontologies, and logic and inference) that are central to Semantic Web development. The book also examines such crucial related topics as ontology engineering and application scenarios./ / After an introductory chapter, topics covered in succeeding chapters include XML and related technologies that support semantic interoperability; RDF and RDF Schema, the standard data model for machine-processable semantics; and OWL, the W3C-approved standard for a Web ontology language more extensive than RDF Schema; rules, both monotonic and nonmonotonic, in the framework of the Semantic Web; selected application domains and how the Semantic Web would benefit them; the development of ontology-based systems; and current debates on key issues and predictions for the future. The MIT Press 01-04-2004 07-02-2007 Grigoris Antoniou/ Frank van Harmelen 272
+book 0076092016335 0130674826 us A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming Paperback Software Development/ Software Engineering $49.99 $4.38 4 Prentice Hall PTR 08-02-2002 08-02-2007 David Astels/ Granville Miller/ Miroslav Novak 384
+book 9780961454739 0961454733 us Art & Fear Art & Fear Paperback Study & Teaching/ Criticism $12.95 $7.25 4.5 "This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially-statistically speaking-there aren't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius."
--from the Introduction/ Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves
both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is expeienced by artmakers themselves./ This is not your typical self-help book. This is a book written by artists, for artists -- it's about what it feels like when artists sit down at their easel or keyboard, in their studio or performance space, trying to do the work they need to do. First published in 1994, Art & Fear quickly became an underground classic. Word-of-mouth response alone-now enhanced by internet posting-has placed it among the best-selling books on artmaking and creativity nationally./ Art & Fear has attracted a remarkably diverse audience, ranging from beginning to accomplished artists in every medium, and including an exceptional concentration among students and teachers. The original Capra Press edition of Art & Fear sold 80,000 copies./ An excerpt:/
Today, more than it was however many years ago, art is hard because you have to keep after it so consistently. On so many different fronts. For so little external reward. Artists become veteran artists only by making peace not just with themselves, but with a huge range of issues. You have to find your work.../ Image Continuum Press 01-04-2001 03-02-2007 David Bayles/ Ted Orland 122
+book 0785342616415 0201616416 us Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change Paperback Software Development/ Software Engineering $29.95 $2.98 4 Kent Beck's eXtreme Programming eXplained provides an intriguing high-level overview of the author's Extreme Programming (XP) software development methodology. Written for IS managers, project leaders, or programmers, this guide provides a glimpse at the principles behind XP and its potential advantages for small- to mid-size software development teams./ The book intends to describe what XP is, its guiding principles, and how it works. Simply written, the book avoids case studies and concrete details in demonstrating the efficacy of XP. Instead, it demonstrates how XP relies on simplicity, unit testing, programming in pairs, communal ownership of code, and customer input on software to motivate code improvement during the development process. As the author notes, these princ
iples are not new, but when they're combined their synergy fosters a new and arguably better way to build and maintain software. Throughout the book, the author presents and explains these principles, such as "rapid feedback" and "play to win," which form the basis of XP./ Generally speaking, XP changes the way programmers work. The book is good at delineating new roles for programmers and managers who Beck calls "coaches." The most striking characteristic of XP is that programmers work in pairs, and that testing is an intrinsic part of the coding process. In a later section, the author even shows where XP works and where it doesn't and offers suggestions for migrating teams and organizations over to the XP process./ In the afterword, the author recounts the experiences that led him to develop and refine XP, an insightful section that should inspire any organization to adopt XP. This book serves as a useful introduction to the philosophy and practice of XP for the manager or
programmer who wants a potentially better way to build software. --Richard Dragan/ Topics covered: Extreme Programming (XP) software methodology, principles, XP team roles, facilities design, testing, refactoring, the XP software lifecycle, and adopting XP./ Addison-Wesley Professional 05-10-1999 07-02-2007 Kent Beck 224
+book 0785342146530 0321146530 us Test Driven Development: By Example (Addison-Wesley Signature Series) Test Driven Development: By Example (Addison-Wesley Signature Series) Paperback Software Development/ Testing/ Software Engineering/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007 $44.99 $28.75 4 Addison-Wesley Professional 08-11-2002 07-02-2007 Kent Beck 240
+book 9780743245517 0743245512 us A Tooth from the Tiger's Mouth: How to Treat Your Injuries with Powerful Healing Secrets of the Great Chinese Warrior (Fireside Books (Fireside)) A Tooth from the Tiger's Mouth: How to Treat Your Injuries with Powerful Healing Secrets of the Great Chinese Warrior (Fireside Books (Fireside)) Paperback Healing/ Herbal Remedies/ Chinese Medicine $14.00 $8.25 5 A renowned expert in Chinese sports medicine and martial arts reveals ancient Eastern secrets for healing common injuries, including sprains, bruises, deep cuts, and much more./ For centuries, Chinese martial arts masters have kept their highly prized remedies as carefully guarded secrets, calling such precious and powerful knowledge "a tooth from the tiger's mouth." Now, for the first time, these deeply effective methods are revealed to Westerners who want alternative ways to treat the acute and chronic injuries experienced by any active person./ While many books outline the po
pular teachings of traditional Chinese medicine, only this one offers step-by-step instructions for treating injuries. Expert practitioner and martial artist Tom Bisio explains the complete range of healing strategies and provides a Chinese first-aid kit to help the reader fully recover from every mishap: cuts, sprains, breaks, dislocations, bruises, muscle tears, tendonitis, and much more./ He teaches readers how to:/ / • Examine and diagnose injuries/ • / • Prepare and apply herbal formulas/ • / • Assemble a portable kit for emergencies/ • / • Fully recuperate with strengthening exercises and healing dietary advice/ Comprehensive and easy to follow, with drawings to illustrate both the treatment strategies and the strengthening exercises, this unique guidebook will give readers complete access to the powerful healing secrets of the great Chinese warriors./ Fireside 05-10-2004 06-02-2007 Tom Bisio 384
+book 9781932394696 1932394699 us Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers Paperback/ Illustrated Web Site Design/ Object-Oriented Design/ Transportation & Highway $44.95 $24.50 4 -The word is out: with Ruby on Rails you can build powerful Web applications easily and quickly! And just like the Rails framework itself, Rails applications are Ruby programs. That means you can't tap into the full power of Rails unless you master the Ruby language./ Ruby for Rails, written by Ruby expert David Black (with a forward by David Heinemeier Hansson), helps Rails developers achieve Ruby mastery. Each chapter deepens your Ruby knowledge and shows you how it connects to Rails. You'll gain confidence working with objects and classes and learn how to leverage Ruby's elegant, expressive syntax for Rails application power. And you'll become a better Rails developer through a deep understanding of the design of Rails it
self and how to take advantage of it./ Newcomers to Ruby will find a Rails-oriented Ruby introduction that's easy to read and that includes dynamic programming techniques, an exploration of Ruby objects, classes, and data structures, and many neat examples of Ruby and Rails code in action. Ruby for Rails: the Ruby guide for Rails developers!/ What's Inside/ Classes, modules, and objects/ Collection handling and filtering/ String and regular expression manipulation/ Exploration of the Rails source code/ Ruby dynamics/ Many more programming concepts and techniques!/ Manning Publications 11-05-2006 07-02-2007 David Black 532
+book 0021898130853 0020130856 us The Elements of Technical Writing (Elements of Series) The Elements of Technical Writing (Elements of Series) Paperback Writing Skills/ General & Reference/ Technical $9.95 $4.49 3.5 Longman 19-12-2000 11-02-2007 Gary Blake/ Robert W. Bly 192
+book 0785342310054 0201310058 us Effective Java Programming Language Guide Effective Java Programming Language Guide Paperback Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007 $49.99 $29.95 5 Written for the working Java developer, Joshua Bloch's Effective Java Programming Language Guide provides a truly useful set of over 50 best practices and tips for writing better Java code. With plenty of advice from an indisputable expert in the field, this title is sure to be an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to get more out of their code./ As a veteran developer at Sun, the author shares his considerable insight into the design choices made over the years in Sun's own Java libraries (which the author acknowledges haven't always been perfect). Based on his experience working with Sun's best minds, the author provides a compilation of 57 tips for better Java code organized by category. Many of these ideas will let you write more robust classes that better cooperate with built
-in Java APIs. Many of the tips make use of software patterns and demonstrate an up-to-the-minute sense of what works best in today's design. Each tip is clearly introduced and explained with code snippets used to demonstrate each programming principle./ Early sections on creating and destroying objects show you ways to make better use of resources, including how to avoid duplicate objects. Next comes an absolutely indispensable guide to implementing "required" methods for custom classes. This material will help you write new classes that cooperate with old ones (with advice on implementing essential requirements like the equals() and hashCode() methods)./ The author has a lot to say about class design, whether using inheritance or composition. Tips on designing methods show you how to create understandable, maintainable, and robust classes that can be easily reused by others on your team. Sections on mapping C code (like structures, unions, and enumerated types) onto Java w
ill help C programmers bring their existing skills to Sun's new language. Later sections delve into some general programming tips, like using exceptions effectively. The book closes with advice on using threads and synchronization techniques, plus some worthwhile advice on object serialization./ Whatever your level of Java knowledge, this title can make you a more effective programmer. Wisely written, yet never pompous or doctrinaire, the author has succeeded in packaging some really valuable nuggets of advice into a concise and very accessible guidebook that arguably deserves a place on most any developer's bookshelf. --Richard Dragan/ Topics covered:/ • Best practices and tips for Java/ • Creating and destroying objects (static factory methods, singletons, avoiding duplicate objects and finalizers)/ • Required methods for custom classes (overriding equals(), hashCode(), toString(), clone(), and compareTo() properly)/ • Hints for class and in
terface design (minimizing class and member accessibility, immutability, composition versus inheritance, interfaces versus abstract classes, preventing subclassing, static versus nonstatic classes)/ • C constructs in Java (structures, unions, enumerated types, and function pointers in Java)/ • Tips for designing methods (parameter validation, defensive copies, method signatures, method overloading, zero-length arrays, hints for Javadoc comments)/ • General programming advice (local variable scope, using Java API libraries, avoiding float and double for exact comparisons, when to avoid strings, string concatenation, interfaces and reflection, avoid native methods, optimizing hints, naming conventions)/ • Programming with exceptions (checked versus run-time exceptions, standard exceptions, documenting exceptions, failure-capture information, failure atomicity)/ • Threading and multitasking (synchronization and scheduling hints, thread sa
fety, avoiding thread groups)/ • Serialization (when to implement Serializable, the readObject(), and readResolve() methods)/ Prentice Hall PTR 05-06-2001 07-02-2007 Joshua Bloch 252
+book 9780596000523 0596000529 us Creating Applications with Mozilla Creating Applications with Mozilla Paperback/ Illustrated Web Browsers/ Web Programming $39.95 $3.97 2.5 Mozilla is not just a browser. Mozilla is also a framework that allows developers to create cross-platform applications. This framework is made up of JavaScript, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and Mozilla's XUL (XML-based User-interface Language) as well as the Gecko rendering engine, XBL (eXtensible Binding Language), XPCOM (Mozilla's component model), and several other components. Creating Applications with Mozilla explains how applications are created with Mozilla and provides step-by-step information about how you can create your own programs using Mozilla's powerful cross-platform development framework. This book also shows examples of many different types of existing applications to demonstrate some of the possibilities of Mozilla application development. One of Mozilla's biggest advantage
s for a developer is that Mozilla-based applications are cross-platform, meaning programs work the same on Windows as they do on Linux or the Mac OS. Working through the book, you are introduced to the Mozilla development environment and after installing Mozilla, you quickly learn to create simple applications. After the initial satisfaction of developing your own portable applications, the book branches into topics on modular development and packaging your application. In order to build more complex applications, coverage of XUL, JavaScript, and CSS allow you to discover how to customize and build out your application shell. The second half of the book explores more advanced topics including UI enhancement, localization, and remote distribution. Mozilla 1.0 was released on June 5th, 2002, after more than four years of development as an open source project. This book has been written so that all of the information and examples will work with this release and any of the 1.0.x
maintenance releases. In addition to Netscape's Mozilla-based browsers (Netscape 6.x and 7.x), the Mozilla framework has been used to create other browsers such as Galeon and Chimera, and chat clients such as ChatZilla and JabberZilla. Developers have also used Mozilla to create games, development tools, browser enhancements, as well as all sorts of other types of applications. O'Reilly Media 09-02-2002 07-02-2007 David Boswell/ Brian King/ Ian Oeschger/ Pete Collins/ Eric Murphy 480
+book 0031869008357 1558538356 us Life's Little Instruction Book 511 Suggestions, Observations, And Reminders On How To Live A Happy And Rewarding Life Life's Little Instruction Book 511 Suggestions, Observations, And Reminders On How To Live A Happy And Rewarding Life Paperback Ethics & Morality/ New Age/ Gifts/ Collections & Readers/ Spiritual $6.99 $1.70 5 H. Jackson Brown, Jr. originally wrote Life's Little Instruction Book™ as a gift for his son who was leaving home to begin his freshman year in college. Brown says, "I read years ago that it was not the responsibility of parents to pave the road for their children but to provide a road map, and I wanted to provide him with what I had learned about living a happy and rewarding life."Life's Little Instruction Book™ is a guidebook that gently points the way to happiness and fulfillment. The observations are direct, simple, and as practical as an umbrella./ "But it's not just for young people," says
Brown. "Most of us already know how to live a successful and purposeful life. We know we should be more understanding and thoughtful, more responsible, courageous and appreciative. It's just that we sometimes need reminding."Life's Little Instruction Book™ is that reminder, as well as the perfect gift for a relative or a friend who needs encouragement at any time of the year./ • Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day./ • Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference./ • Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures./ • Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks softly./ • Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have./ • Be kinder than necessary./ • Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know./ • Commit yourself to constant self-improvement./ • Don't major in minor things./ • Never cut what can be untied./ Since its de
but in 1991, Life's Little Instruction Book™ has revolutionized the publishing industry. This little plaid book, which has been embraced the world over, has sold more than nine million copies, spent more than two years atop the New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into 33 languages. Though originally written as a gift from a father to a son, its simple message has been enjoyed by men and women of all ages around the world./ Rutledge Hill Press 29-09-2000 08-02-2007 H. Jackson Brown
+book 0037038174434 1580174434 us The Qigong Year The Qigong Year Hardcover Meditation/ Mental & Spiritual Healing/ Chinese Medicine/ Energy Healing/ Tai Chi & Qi Gong $12.95 $0.98 3 Closely related to the popular Chinese martial art Tai Chi, Qigong (pronounced "chee gong") is an ancient self-healing art that combines movement and meditation in holistic workouts that simultaneously develop body and spirit, promoting overall health and vitality./ Practiced by millions of Chinese for thousands of years, Qigong is now gaining popularity throughout the world. The program of exercises, movements, breathing techniques, and visualizations in The Qigong Year is specially designed to mirror the flow of the seasons. The exercises are illustrated with instructive line drawings, and the book features elegant duotones and patterned art accented with gold metallic ink./ Combining vigorous and gentle movement, Qigong exercises help strengthen the body, improve posture, align the
spine, and relax shoulder and neck muscles. Three variations of each exercise - seated, standing, and advanced - are described, enabling people of all ages and abilities to easily practice and enjoy the benefits of Qigong./ Qigong meditation can help stabilize moods - reducing anger, anxiety, and depression - and improve outlook and self-confidence, making it easier to cope with life's challenges. The powerful affirmation technique, based on repeating positive statements that relate to personal problems or desires, can be practiced anywhere - while driving to work, taking a shower, or doing housework. Includes examples of effective affirmations, as well as guidelines for generating personalized ones to target individual health, work, and relationship challenges./ / Storey Publishing, LLC 15-05-2002 06-02-2007 Michael Bruney 256
+book 9780385494717 0385494718 us The Hidden Connections: Integrating The Biological, Cognitive, And Social Dimensions Of Life Into A Science Of Sustainability The Hidden Connections: Integrating The Biological, Cognitive, And Social Dimensions Of Life Into A Science Of Sustainability Hardcover Modern/ History $24.95 $2.00 4.5 The author of the bestselling The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life explores the profound social implications of emerging scientific principles and provides an innovative framework for using them to understand and solve some of the most important issues of our time./ / For most of history, scientific investigation was based on linear thinking. But the 1980's brought a revolutionary change. With the advent of improved computer power, scientists could apply complexity theory--nonlinear thinking--to scientific processes far more easily than ever before. Physicist Fritjof Capra was at the forefront of the revolution, and in The Web of Life he ex
tended its scope by showing the impact of complexity theory on living organisms. In The Hidden Connections he breaks through another frontier, this time applying the principles of complexity theory to an analysis of the broad sphere of all human interactions./ / Capra posits that in order to sustain life in the future, the principles underlying our social institutions must be consistent with the organization that nature has evolved to sustain the "web of life." In a lucid and convincing argument, Capra explains how the theoretical ideas of science can be applied to the practical concerns of our time. Covering every aspect of human nature and society, he discusses such vital matters as the management of human organizations, the challenges and dangers of economic globalization, and the nature and the problems of biotechnology. He concludes with an authoritative, often provocative plan for designing ecologically sustainable communities and technologies as alternatives to the cu
rrent economic globalization./ / A brilliant, incisive examination of the relationship between science and our social systems, The Hidden Connections will spark enormous debate in the scientific community and inspire us to think about the future of humanity in a new way. Doubleday 20-08-2002 11-02-2007 Fritjof Capra 320
+book 9781570625190 1570625190 us The Tao of Physics The Tao of Physics Paperback Taoism $16.95 $7.95 4 First published in 1975, The Tao of Physics rode the wave of fascination in exotic East Asian philosophies. Decades later, it still stands up to scrutiny, explicating not only Eastern philosophies but also how modern physics forces us into conceptions that have remarkable parallels. Covering over 3,000 years of widely divergent traditions across Asia, Capra can't help but blur lines in his generalizations. But the big picture is enough to see the value in them of experiential knowledge, the limits of objectivity, the absence of foundational matter, the interrelation of all things and events, and the fact that process is primary, not things. Capra finds the same notions in modern physics. Those approaching Eastern thought from a background of Western science will find reliable introductions here to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism and learn how commonalities among t
hese systems of thought can offer a sort of philosophical underpinning for modern science. And those approaching modern physics from a background in Eastern mysticism will find precise yet comprehensible descriptions of a Western science that may reinvigorate a hope in the positive potential of scientific knowledge. Whatever your background, The Tao of Physics is a brilliant essay on the meeting of East and West, and on the invaluable possibilities that such a union promises. --Brian Bruya Shambhala 04-01-2000 11-02-2007 Fritjof Capra 366
+book 9780553346107 0553346105 us Uncommon Wisdom Uncommon Wisdom Paperback Modern $27.00 $0.20 5 Bantam 01-01-1989 11-02-2007 Fritjof Capra 334
+book 9780385476751 0385476752 us The Web of Life The Web of Life Hardcover Chaos & Systems/ Acoustics & Sound/ System Theory/ Ecology $23.95 $5.49 4 The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the frontiers of scientific, social, and philosophical thought. In his international bestsellers The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, he juxtaposed physics and mysticism to define a new vision of reality. In The Web of Life, Capra takes yet another giant step, setting forth a new scientific language to describe interrelationships and interdependence of psychological, biological, physical, social, and cultural phenomena--the "web of life."/ / / / During the past twenty-five years, scientists have challenged conventional views of evolution and the organization of living systems and have developed new theories with revolutionary philosophical and social implications. Fritjof
Capra has been at the forefront of this revolution. In The Web of Life, Capra offers a brilliant synthesis of such recent scientific breakthroughs as the theory of complexity, Gaia theory, chaos theory, and other explanations of the properties of organisms, social systems, and ecosystems. Capra's surprising findings stand in stark contrast to accepted paradigms of mechanism and Darwinism and provide an extraordinary new foundation for ecological policies that will allow us to build and sustain communities without diminishing the opportunities for future generations./ / / / Now available in paperback for the first time, The Web of Life is cutting-edge science writing in the tradition of James Gleick's Chaos, Gregory Bateson's Mind and Matter, and Ilya Prigogine's Order Out of Chaos./ / / From the Trade Paperback edition. DoubleDay 01-09-1996 11-02-2007 Fritjof Capra 368
+book 9780880222785 0880222786 us DBase III Plus Advanced Programming DBase III Plus Advanced Programming Paperback dBASE $22.95 $1.85 Que Corporation,U.S. 02-02-1987 07-02-2007 Joseph-David Carrabis 300
+book 9780810807303 0810807300 us Building library collections, Building library collections, Unknown Binding Library Management $0.99 Scarecrow Press 08-02-1974 08-02-2007 Mary Duncan Carter 415
+book 9780894070174 0894070177 us The Book of Internal Exercises The Book of Internal Exercises Hardcover $12.95 $0.01 4 Strawberry Hill Pr 12-02-1978 11-02-2007 Stephen Thomas Chang 138
+book 9781416915546 1416915540 us The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint Hardcover Entertainers/ Criminals $23.95 $9.00 4.5 / Beloved stoner comedian TOMMY CHONG is now older, wiser, and officially an EX-CON./ / / On the morning of February 24, 2003, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration launched a sting called Operation Pipe Dreams and forced themselves through the door of Tommy's California home, with automatic weapons drawn. As a result of the raid on his home; the simultaneous ransacking of his son's company, Chong Glass; and the Bush administration's determination to make an example out of the "Pope of Pot;" he was sentenced to nine months in prison because his company shipped bongs to a head shop in Pennsylvania that was a front for the DEA./ / / Well . . . now it's Tommy Chong's turn to fight back and tell his side of the story./ / / Beginning with Tommy's experiences growing up in Canada in the forties a
nd fifties as a mixed-race kid and going on to become a comedy legend, The I Chong is at once a memoir, a spiritual exploration of his time in prison, and a political indictment of the eroding civil liberties in post-9//11 American society. He tells the unbelievable story of his trip down the rabbit hole of America's war on drugs and of his experiences in the federal prison system, and he offers up timely observations on combating the conservative political forces at work in this country. Introspective, inspiring, and incendiary, The I Chong is a unique chronicle of one man's life and how his humorous and spiritual point of view saved him during his wrongful incarceration at the hands of an administration without boundaries./ Simon Spotlight Entertainment 08-08-2006 10-02-2007 Tommy Chong 224
+book 9780974514031 0974514039 us Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Apps Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Apps Paperback/ Illustrated Software Development/ Software Project Management $29.95 $15.65 4.5 Forget wizards, you need a slave--someone to do your repetitive, tedious and boring tasks, without complaint and without pay, so you'll have more time to design and write exciting code. Indeed, that's what computers are for. You can enlist your own computer to automate all of your project's repetitive tasks, ranging from individual builds and running unit tests through to full product release, customer deployment, and monitoring the system. Many teams try to do these tasks by hand. That's usually a really bad idea: people just aren't as good at repetitive tasks as machines. You run the risk of doing it differently the one time it matters, on one machine but not another, or doing it just plain wron
g. But the computer can do these tasks for you the same way, time after time, without bothering you. You can transform these labor-intensive, boring and potentially risky chores into automatic, background processes that just work. In this eagerly anticipated book, you'll find a variety of popular, open-source tools to help automate your project. With this book, you will learn:/ • How to make your build processes accurate, reliable, fast, and easy./ • How to build complex systems at the touch of a button./ • How to build, test, and release software automatically, with no human intervention./ • Technologies and tools available for automation: which to use and when./ • Tricks and tips from the masters (do you know how to have your cell phone tell you that your build just failed?)/ You'll find easy-to-implement recipes to automate your Java project, using the same popular style as the rest of our Jolt Productivity Award-winning Starter Kit
books. Armed with plenty of examples and concrete, pragmatic advice, you'll find it's easy to get started and reap the benefits of modern software development. You can begin to enjoy pragmatic, automatic, unattended software production that's reliable and accurate every time. The Pragmatic Programmers 08-02-2004 07-02-2007 Mike Clark 176
+book 9780912381039 0912381035 us Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements Paperback Acupuncture & Acupressure/ Massage/ Pharmacology/ Chinese Medicine $16.00 $11.29 4 Traditional Acupuncture Institute, Incorporat 10-02-1994 11-02-2007 Dianne M. Connelly 192
+book 9780262032933 0262032937 us Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition Hardcover Beginner's Guides/ Information Systems/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007 $82.00 $56.99 4 Aimed at any serious programmer or computer science student, the new second edition of Introduction to Algorithms builds on the tradition of the original with a truly magisterial guide to the world of algorithms. Clearly presented, mathematically rigorous, and yet approachable even for the math-averse, this title sets a high standard for a textbook and reference to the best algorithms for solving a wide range of computing problems./ With sample problems and mathematical proofs demonstrating the correctness of each algorithm, this book is ideal as a textbook for classroom study, but its reach doesn't end there. The authors do a fine job of explaining each algorithm. (Reference sections on basic mathematical notation will help readers bridge the gap,
but it will help to have some math background to appreciate the full achievement of this handsome hardcover volume.) Every algorithm is presented in pseudo-code, which can be implemented in any computer language, including C//C++ and Java. This ecumenical approach is one of the book's strengths. When it comes to sorting and common data structures, from basic linked lists to trees (including binary trees, red-black, and B-trees), this title really shines, with clear diagrams that show algorithms in operation. Even if you just glance over the mathematical notation here, you can definitely benefit from this text in other ways./ The book moves forward with more advanced algorithms that implement strategies for solving more complicated problems (including dynamic programming techniques, greedy algorithms, and amortized analysis). Algorithms for graphing problems (used in such real-world business problems as optimizing flight schedules or flow through pipelines) come next. In eac
h case, the authors provide the best from current research in each topic, along with sample solutions./ This text closes with a grab bag of useful algorithms including matrix operations and linear programming, evaluating polynomials, and the well-known Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) (useful in signal processing and engineering). Final sections on "NP-complete" problems, like the well-known traveling salesman problem, show off that while not all problems have a demonstrably final and best answer, algorithms that generate acceptable approximate solutions can still be used to generate useful, real-world answers./ Throughout this text, the authors anchor their discussion of algorithms with current examples drawn from molecular biology (like the Human Genome Project), business, and engineering. Each section ends with short discussions of related historical material, often discussing original research in each area of algorithms. On the whole, they argue successfully that algori
thms are a "technology" just like hardware and software that can be used to write better software that does more, with better performance. Along with classic books on algorithms (like Donald Knuth's three-volume set, The Art of Computer Programming), this title sets a new standard for compiling the best research in algorithms. For any experienced developer, regardless of their chosen language, this text deserves a close look for extending the range and performance of real-world software. --Richard Dragan/ Topics covered: Overview of algorithms (including algorithms as a technology); designing and analyzing algorithms; asymptotic notation; recurrences and recursion; probabilistic analysis and randomized algorithms; heapsort algorithms; priority queues; quicksort algorithms; linear time sorting (including radix and bucket sort); medians and order statistics (including minimum and maximum); introduction to data structures (stacks, queues, linked lists, and rooted trees); hash t
ables (including hash functions); binary search trees; red-black trees; augmenting data structures for custom applications; dynamic programming explained (including assembly-line scheduling, matrix-chain multiplication, and optimal binary search trees); greedy algorithms (including Huffman codes and task-scheduling problems); amortized analysis (the accounting and potential methods); advanced data structures (including B-trees, binomial and Fibonacci heaps, representing disjoint sets in data structures); graph algorithms (representing graphs, minimum spanning trees, single-source shortest paths, all-pairs shortest paths, and maximum flow algorithms); sorting networks; matrix operations; linear programming (standard and slack forms); polynomials and the Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT); number theoretic algorithms (including greatest common divisor, modular arithmetic, the Chinese remainder theorem, RSA public-key encryption, primality testing, integer factorization); string
matching; computational geometry (including finding the convex hull); NP-completeness (including sample real-world NP-complete problems and their insolvability); approximation algorithms for NP-complete problems (including the traveling salesman problem); reference sections for summations and other mathematical notation, sets, relations, functions, graphs and trees, as well as counting and probability backgrounder (plus geometric and binomial distributions)./ The MIT Press 01-09-2001 07-02-2007 Thomas H. Cormen/ Charles E. Leiserson/ Ronald L. Rivest/ Clifford Stein 1184
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e integrity of the system. You will learn how to ensure your app is flexible and maintainable, and how good, structured design can help avoid problems like browser incompatibilities. Along the way it helps you unlearn many old coding habits. Above all, it opens your mind to the many advantages gained by placing much of the processing in the browser. If you are a web developer who has prior experience with web technologies, this book is for you./ Manning Publications 01-10-2005 07-02-2007 Dave Crane/ Eric Pascarello/ Darren James 650
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nd effectiveness, as well as aesthetic pleasure. Everyone who uses type, everyone who enjoys the appearance of the printed word, will find Design with Type informative and fascinating. It provides, too, an outstanding example of the effectiveness of imaginative and tasteful typographic design./ University of Toronto Press 14-06-2000 11-02-2007 Carl Dair 162
+book 0676251833904 0804833907 us Making Out in Chinese (Making Out (Tuttle)) Making Out in Chinese (Making Out (Tuttle)) Paperback Chinese/ Phrasebooks - General $7.95 $4.00 3.5 Tuttle Publishing 11-02-2003 11-02-2007 Ray Daniels 96
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+book 9780140286786 0140286780 us Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence Paperback Public Finance/ Financial Planning/ Money Management/ Contemporary $15.00 $5.00 4.5 There's a big difference between "making a living" and making a life. Do you spend more than you earn? Does making a living feel more like making a dying? Do you dislike your job but can't afford to leave it? Is money fragmenting your time, your relationships with family and friends? If so, Your Money or Your Life is for you./ From this inspiring book, learn how to/ • get out of debt and develop savings/ • reorder material priorities and live well for less/ • resolve inner conflicts between values and lifestyles/ • convert problems into opportunities to learn new skills/ • attain a wholeness of l
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+book 9780262541480 0262541483 us The Scheme Programming Language, 3rd Edition The Scheme Programming Language, 3rd Edition Paperback Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007 $37.00 $22.98 5 This thoroughly updated edition of The Scheme Programming Language provides an introduction to Scheme and a definitive reference for standard Scheme, presented in a clear and concise manner. Written for professionals and students with some prior programming experience, it begins by leading the programmer gently through the basics of Scheme and continues with an introduction to some of the more advanced features of the language. Many exercises are presented to help reinforce the lessons learned, and answers to the exercises are given in a new appendix. Most of the remaining chapters are dedicated to the reference material, which describes in detail the standard features of Scheme included in the Revised Report on Scheme and the ANSI//IEEE standard for Scheme./ / Numerous examples are
presented throughout the introductory and reference portions of the text, and a unique set of extended example programs and applications, with additional exercises, are presented in the final chapter. Reinforcing the book's utility as a reference text are appendixes that present the formal syntax of Scheme, a summary of standard forms and procedures, and a bibliography of Scheme resources. The Scheme Programming Language stands alone as an introduction to and essential reference for Scheme programmers. It is also useful as a supplementary text for any course that uses Scheme./ / The Scheme Programming Language is illustrated by artist Jean-Pierre Hebert, who writes Scheme programs to extend his ability to create sophisticated works of digital art. The MIT Press 01-10-2003 08-02-2007 R. Kent Dybvig 329
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r their own use. Each of the 363 points covered is listed according to the system currently used in China. Descriptions include the name in Chinese characters, in Pinyin, and in English. The classical location according to major Chinese texts, the associated point groupings, an explanation of point functions, and classical energetic associations are also noted. Further detail is provided by inclusion of channel relationships, five-phase relationships, and qi functions. Additional notes detail linguistic and practical considerations that have accrued to the point over time. Alternate names for the point are given, again in Chinese, Pinyin, and English. Indexes provide stroke order listings, point group names, and point lists for each character. A glossary of all the characters used in point names provides a definition for each Chinese character. This book provides much valuable theoretical and therapeutic information./ Paradigm Publications (MA) 06-02-1989 11-02-2007
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+book 9781932394443 1932394443 us IntelliJ IDEA in Action (In Action series) IntelliJ IDEA in Action (In Action series) Paperback/ Illustrated Software Development $44.95 $22.29 4.5 This book will help developers dig a little deeper into IDEA and embrace its streamlining features which allow for more time to be spent on project design rather than code management. Without some educational investment, however, IDEA can be just another editor. That then, is the purpose of this book. To not only get you up and running quickly, but to teach you how to use IDEA's powerful software development tools to their fullest advantage. Important product features, including the debugger, source code control, and the many code generation tools, are carefully explained and accompanied by tips and tricks that will leave even experienced IDEA users with "Eureka!" moments of informed programming. Coders just graduating from NOTEPAD and Java IDE veterans alike will profit from the powerf
ul and timesaving expertise provided in this essential programmer's resource./ IDEA is a next-generation IDE for Java, an Integrated Development Environment. As the term IDE implies, IDEA integrates or combines all of the tools needed to develop Java software into a single application and interface. In other words, IDEA is a tool that helps develop Java applications more quickly, easily, and intelligently. IDEA can help with every phase of a project, from design and development to testing and deployment. This book is based on the IntelliJ IDEA Java development environment software from JetBrains, version 5.0./ Manning Publications 01-03-2006 07-02-2007 Duane K. Fields/ Stephen Saunders/ Eugene Belayev 450
+book 0636920924876 1565924878 us Java in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference (Java Series) Java in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference (Java Series) (3rd Edition) 3rd Paperback Reference/ Networking/ Object-Oriented Design/ Nutshell/ Java $29.95 $0.01 4 The 3rd edition of the well-known reference, Java in a Nutshell, covers the essential APIs of Java 1.2, including networking, security, input and output, and basic language and utility classes. Due to the size of the Java 1.2 API, graphics and graphical user interface classes are now examined in a volume called Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, and server-side and enterprise programming are detailed in Java Enterprise in a Nutshell./ Though primarily a reference, the book starts off with a thorough, fast-paced introduction to Java, exploring all the key topics, including syntax, object-oriented programming, security, beans, and tools. These discussions are brief and very information-dense, and if you are
buying this book to learn the language, you will probably be overwhelmed by the speed of this initiation./ This book intends to document quite a bit of Java, and it easily succeeds with broad coverage of Java programming in Part I, and API cataloging broken down by package in Part II. For example, discussions in Part I explain Types, Reflection, and Dynamic Loading. The handling of these topics takes a little over a page, but the book gives a useful overview with code examples that clearly illustrate the points made. It is one of the clearest and most concise treatments of these three topics available./ The chapters in Part II include an introduction, diagrams, and sections for each class in the package. The sections for each class can be very informative, as in the discussion of the Socket class in the java.net chapter, which includes how to instantiate a Socket object, getting I//O streams from the object you instantiated, and how to alter the behavior of sockets. This dis
cussion, like most in this book, is brief, clear, and to the point./ If you are looking for a Java reference, this is a solid volume that will provide lasting value. --John Keogh/ Topics covered: Part I, "Introducing Java," provides broad coverage of Java programming topics, including data types, syntax, classes, and objects; Java file structure; inner classes; interfaces; packages; creating and initializing objects; destroying and finalizing objects; input//output; cryptography; networking; security; threads; JavaBeans; JavaDoc; and tools that come with Java 1.2 SDK./ Part II, "The Java API Quick Reference," includes chapters on the following Java packages: java.beans, java.beans.beancontext, java.io, java.lang, java.lang.ref, java.lang.reflect, java.math, java.net, java.security, java.security.acl, java.security.cert, java.security.interfaces, java.security.spec, java.text, java.util, java.util.jar, java.util.zip, javax.crypto, javax.crypto.interfaces, javax.crypto.spec, a
nd a final chapter, which provides an index for classes, methods, and fields./ O'Reilly 11-02-1999 07-02-2007 David Flanagan 666
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