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by Diane Vogel Maurer
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Gramercy (1991-03-18)
ISBN: 051702019X
EAN: 9780517020197
Dewy Decimal #: 686.36
Hardcover: 119 pages
Release Date: 1991-03-18
SKU: 080808015
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: exlibrary copy in good condition with the usual markings etc
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Build own equipment, experiment, be inspired, bookbind
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-07-23
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The Maurers are marbling artists, she in watercolor and acrylics, he in oils. Diane Maurer has used linear left brain thinking to clearly explain the process underlying the right brain creative endeavor of marbling. Numerous color images accompanied by step-by-step drawn illustrations (repeated for each pattern) make learning marbling technique while experimenting with one's own inventions uncomplicated. Directions for making equipment, marbling tray, drain board, wood rakes, bouquet combs, are based on easily obtained household items (T pins, foam, glue). This world class artistic team collaborates with other artists who work on fabric. One chapter is devoted to projects to make from marbled papers, with introductory techniques on bookbinding. For such a short and easily consumed volume, this contains inspiring visuals, instructive graphics, broad technique offerings, as well as craft suggestions. Highly recommended.
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Marbling
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-05-19
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Marbling--once called "cloud painting" is enjoying a renaissance, both as a craft and as a decorating concept. This ancient art of floating colors on liquid, patterning thema nd picking upt he image on paper or fabric can now be easily done at home. This beautiful, all-inclusive guide to marbling includes: step-by-step instructions for suminagashi, oil-color marbling, and watercolor marbling; detailed directions for creating twenty classic marbling patterns, including Nonpareil, Cascade, French Curl and Scallop; more than sixty full color examples of marbled papers and fabrics.
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by Tim Bogenn, BradyGames
Product Group: Book
Publisher: BRADY GAMES (2003-03-12)
ISBN: 0744002362
EAN: 9780744002362
UPC: 752073002367
Dewy Decimal #: 794.8
Paperback: 128 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 042108038
Condition: Used: Acceptable
Comments: heavily creased corners...No Underlining or Highlighting...
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BradyGames' Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance Official Strategy Guide for PlayStation 2 features area maps that pinpoint all items and diagram patrol patterns. Comprehensive walkthrough, including strategies for achieving objectives. Guard-by-guard tactics show players all options as they take out enemies. Unbeatable boss strategies to defeat every enemy with cold efficiency. Exhaustive equipment and weapon rosters, game secrets, and more!
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Not worth fifteen dollars for
Rating  (2)
Date: 2003-06-25
13 out of 14 customers found this reveiw helpful
Sure you COULD pick up this guide, but why would you want to? They cover all the VR missions and Snake tails and all the bonus stuff that MGS2 substance has to offer but that's all you get from this guide. Should you buy MGS2 substance on PS2 and you've never played the original SOL package and you want help for the main storyline you'd have to go out and buy TWO guides if its the PS2 version you're getting. That is, if you want the full walkthrough for the adventure. Otherwise you'll have to go and purchase the Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Official Strategy Guide. Yeah, this guide covers all the extras in a nice easy to read way, but if you went through the story of the original MGS2 and you're looking for a guide to that, you'll end up purchasing two guides. My solution to this, go out and buy the XBOX version of this guide. Its the exact same AND it covers the whole story mode walkthrough. That way you'll only spend fifteen dollars rather than blowing off thirty.
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by Edmund C. Arranga, Frank P. Coyle
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (1996-05-17)
ISBN: 0132611406
EAN: 9780132611404
Dewy Decimal #: 005.133
Textbook Binding: 400 pages
SKU: 092208019
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...minor creases in cover
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This book walks COBOL users through the next phase of COBOL: Object-oriented COBOL (OOCOBOL). Written by experts in COBOL programming, Object-Oriented COBOL teaches you how to integrate COBOL with object-oriented methodologies. It provides explanations and roadmaps that will help you understand, navigate, and successfully integrate analysis and design concepts with enabling OOCOBOL constructs. Designed for current COBOL users and based on the authors' experience teaching object-oriented COBOL, Object-Oriented COBOL can be used by COBOL programmers to begin programming effectively with objects in as little as twelve weeks, significantly less than the steep learning curve of twelve to twenty-four months for Smalltalk and C++. Object-Oriented COBOL also includes extensive examples and experiences, written in OOCOBOL, that explain the defining traits of an object-oriented language, such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.
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by Mark G. Sobell
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (2004-08-09)
ISBN: 0131470248
EAN: 9780131470248
UPC: 076092035268
Dewy Decimal #: 005.268
Paperback: 1136 pages
Edition: 2
SKU: 072108001
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...corner wear on cover...NO CDROMS 333
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Mark Sobell's books are classics because he is a great writer and a technicalmaster. Well over 300,000 Sobell Unix and Linux books have been sold.This book is a comprehensive--and remarkably well-written--tutorial oninstalling, configuring, and using Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core 2 and Red HatEnterprise Linux editions.It is broken into seven parts: Part One is an introduction to Linux and to thebook itself; Part Two covers Linux installation, including installing Linux on adual-boot Windows XP/Linux machine; Part Three focuses on the core toolsreaders need to master to be effective using Linux; Part Four covers the KDEand GNOME graphical desktops; Part Five covers key system administrationconcepts.Part Six is brand new in this edition. It covers setting up and using the mostpopular Linux servers, including Samba, Apache, sendmail, NFS, NIS, DNS,DHCP, and FTP; Part Seven is an introduction to programming on Linux. Itcontains Sobell's masterful tutorial on Linux shell programming.Reference the comparison guide to see how Sobell stacks up in the market.
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Chose it for my class
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-07-21
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I teach a class on Linux and chose this book for several reasons
1. price - Linux 'textbooks' run around $150
2. more than enough good material to fill a semester
3. Sobell's books are consistently the most readable I have seen - topics are explained well in a style that is interesting - a rarity in tech books
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Too Much Entry Level Information
Rating (2)
Date: 2008-01-24
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is not for would be admins. The writer wasted a lot of time in explaining mundane stuff. I don't understand why all those reviewers gave so much praise for this merely entry level book.
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Must Have This Book!
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-10-29
To keep it simple...THIS IS THE BOOK!!!
You'll only need one. Learn everything in this book!
Easy to read and lots of examples.
You won't be disappointed!
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Excellent resource for beginning and intermediate Linux users
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-11-10
I purchased this book to keep as a reference for my Linux users. I have found that is easy to use with a plethora of good practical information. It is well written and fairly comprehensive. It takes the mystery out of a lot of the more intricate Linux tasks. It explains things very well and the "How To"s are easy to follow. This is a great book for beginning to intermediate Linux users and a great reference for those that are more experienced.
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Excellent book!
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-11-10
Book is very well written. Concise yet offers valuable info on many different aspects of Fedora. Highly recommend this book.
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by W.F. Clocksin
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. (1998-12-31)
ISBN: 0387175393
EAN: 9780387175393
Paperback: 281 pages
Edition: 3rd, rev., and extended ed
SKU: 092208017
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...minor wear on cover
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Authors concentrate on teaching the core Prolog, and all examples conform to this standard and will run on the most widely-used Prolog implementations. Paper.
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The Best Book on Prolog
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-03-27
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
As good in 2007 as it was when published first time. There is no better introduction to Prolog
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Excellent resource on the Prolog programming language
Rating  (4)
Date: 2001-03-14
5 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is an extreme valuable book on the Prolog programming language that every computer science person should own. Prolog itself is actually a fairly simple language to learn, albeit slightly obscure. It's reputation for complexity comes from its non-standard implementation, but if you don't enter into it expecting it to look and behave like other languages then you should be all right. Once you get past the mathematics and logic, you should be able to get your mind working in that particular direction. This book is a very handy guide for getting the programmer into the Prolog mindset as well as bringing one up to speed on all the (sometimes very confused) syntax.This book, like Prolog itself, is not for the beginning programmer. If you have a good background in logic or mathematics, then you should find this book to be very rewarding.
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Concise presentation of Prolog
Rating (4)
Date: 2000-06-15
11 out of 13 customers found this reveiw helpful
Prolog is a complex subject, especially for someone not well familiar with mathematical logic. Thus, it is very important how the foundation would be laid down. Typically the books I had read on Prolog tend to two extremes. They are either too condensed for such a complicated subject as logical programming, or too broad and mathematically intensive. I would put this book into the first category. Though very concise and well structured, this book does not seem to be a good primer. I would rather recommend the book of Ivan Bratko "Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence (International Computer Science Series)" 2nd edition (the third edition of this book is due in August 2000). Ivan Bratko had managed to find the optimal style of presenting both the essence and the practical aspects of the language. Bratko's book covers various practical applications of the language and manages to convey the basic concepts of Prolog without overwhelming the beginner with too abstract or too condensed passages.Nevertheless, "Programming in Prolog" could be a very good programming reference once you are relatively comfortable with the language.
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the prolog classic
Rating (5)
Date: 1998-11-27
5 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
Programming in prolog is an excellent book, good reference about the core of prolog and its Edinburgh implementation. This book contains all you have to know about the "core". Easy to understand and fast to read.
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The original Clocksin & Mellish book is now dated (surprise)
Rating (4)
Date: 1997-08-22
1 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
The Clocksin & Mellish book was once the
definitive guide to Prolog, but is now fairly
dated and of historical interest. As I understand
it, Clocksin has updated the 1981 work several times
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by Todd Knowlton
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Course Technology Ptr (Sd) (2001-10)
ISBN: 0619058013
EAN: 9780619058012
Dewy Decimal #: 005
Paperback
SKU: 110808002
Condition: Used: Acceptable
Comments: some markings and highlighting...waterlogged pages...wear on cover and corners
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New from the BASICS series, this text provides a step-by-step introduction to programming with Microsoft Visual Basic, C++, HTML and Java. Besides the Visual Basic unit, the book is non-software specific so it can be used with different compilers including Microsoft, Borland, Metroworks and Symantec.
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by Cary N Prague
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Tab Books (1986)
ISBN: 0830603263
EAN: 9780830603268
Unknown Binding: 375 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 091908020
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...minor wear on cover
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by Laura Lemay
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Sams (1999-03-23)
ISBN: 0672313057
EAN: 9780672313059
UPC: 752063313053
Dewy Decimal #: 005.133
Paperback: 720 pages
SKU: 050208031
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No Underlining or Highlighting...curled corners on cover
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Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days covers the basics of Perl in the first few chapters, and then moves on to practical issues of Perl and in-depth discussions of more advanced topics. Later chapters also delve into software engineering topics, with discussions of modular code and object-oriented programming. CGI is covered in one chapter, but it is not the focus on the book. The book relies heavily on longer working examples and code, as opposed to small snippets and code fragments, and each chapter includes two to three smaller complete examples and one major one that illustrates most of the concepts for that chapter and builds on the chapters before it. Written by Laura Lemay, this is her third major book after Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in 21 Days and Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days.
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A great book for beginning programmers who want to learn Perl. Filled with concrete examples and, yes, by using this book you will be able to write good Perl code on your own in 21 days. But no perlson is an island, and there is no single book that covers Perl completely, so we recommend that you also get Programming Perl, which is better at providing the language specifications, and, in fact, was written by the author of Perl.
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Great book - clear and easy to read
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-07-12
I find myself using this book as a refernce almost every day. It is well written and easy to follow. I highly recommend it.
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I haven't even finished the book and I am already feeling like a perl programmer
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-02-10
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
I bought this book after trying to learn Perl through another book (Perl for Bioinformatics). This book is definitely a better introduction to Perl than any other book I've seen. It is clear and concise enough and although it might be hard to finish it in 21 days, you can start coding your own scripts much before the end of the book. I am still on chapter 11 and I can program most of what I need with it (i.e parsers and simple bioinformatics applications). I recognize that there are a few typos on the book but if even Knuth's Art of Computer Programming have them why shouldn't Lemay's Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days do the same?
Given what I said above, I must warn begginer programmers (like me) that Perl is not the best language for you to learn as your first one. It is a dirty scripting language which does the job and is most suitable for parsing files and formatting data but it has a lot of things which make it quite confusing initially (its context dependency for instance). If you want to learn something that will give a solid programming base you should start with something else (i.e. Java, Pascal, Ruby etc) which will probably be a little bit harder but will payoff later.
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Above Average Introduction
Rating (4)
Date: 2005-08-14
23 out of 23 customers found this reveiw helpful
Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days by Laura Lemay is sufficient for the beginner wanting to learn Perl, be it on Windows or a UNIX-based operating system. If Perl is your first programming language, then this book is a fairly good book to choose as a starting point. It teaches the basics of programming in Perl and moves quickly from that point onward.
However, while this approach introduced me to the language I found my ability to pace through the book as I normally would with other programming languages hindered by the author's organization. Unexplained code is used in almost all of the examples before you get to its respective chapter. While this approach may work for some and give cause for thinking, it gave me an unnecessary headache.
Don't get me wrong, it did teach me a good bit about Perl, it inspired me to install Debian Linux on my programming workstation, and left me to pursue Perl. Despite this, I turned to Learning Perl. I found Lemay's writing to be too verbose and the organization of the book a bit of a twister.
Overall, it can be summed up by the following pros/cons:
~ Pros
- Good introduction to Perl
- Independent of Operating System (Great for Windows users ready to Learn Perl and perhaps Migrate to Linux for programming purposes)
- Solid examples and references
- Covers more advanced topics later on
~ Cons
- Verbose
- Awkward structure. Things such as loops are constantly used in beginning examples without much of an explanation. If you don't' have any experience with programming, it will give you a headache. The sections on these devices come much later, and have a strange introduction as well.
- Frustrating at times when it shouldn't be (IE, having you use functions that you haven't learned, or haven't been mentioned, in an example for a particular chapter)
Additionally, I'd recommend picking up Learning Perl or using it instead. I picked up Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days, learned what I could, and then fell in love with Learning Perl's concise, straight to the point chapters and examples (albeit with a fair amount of humor). If you're a Linux/UNIX user, you'll probably find Learning Perl a better catch, but for me, Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days was the stepping stone to Linux and Learning Perl. Overall, I'm satisfied with my purchase.
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Good intro book on Perl
Rating (4)
Date: 2004-10-05
15 out of 15 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you want to start programming Perl in the shortest time possible, and have some programming background, you will benefit from reading Sam's Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours, which packs a lot of practical materials and emphasizes get-your-hands-dirty-immediately as well as uses a lot of code snippets to teach.
This "in 21 days" book, on the other hand, is better if you have more time to learn Perl. Each lesson takes 1-2 hours, if you already have some programming background, and longer if you don't. This book treats Perl more systematically and in more details than the "24 hours" book. It explains a lot of concepts, including hashes and modules, more clearly than the "24 hours" book. I recommend you do 2 or 3 lessons each day, because Perl is such a compact yet complicated language, that it's best to force yourself to learn it quickly, rather than slowly, because slow learning will make you forget things. Be sure to study the examples in the book until you understand every line of code.
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It just didn't work for me
Rating  (3)
Date: 2003-10-27
7 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is not helpful for the newbies. Not only do some of the scripts not work, but the way Perl is explained in this book, it just doesn't make enough sense. I learned more from online tutorials that were perhaps 3 pages long than I learned in 15 pages of one chapter of this book. I usually pick things up quite easily, so it must be the book that is confusing.At least two of the script examples given in Chapters 1-8 had typos in them, and not enough explanation for someone that doesn't know much to figure out what. I am unfortunately going to have to give up on this book to learn Perl and turn to the internet... too bad I spent $35 for the book. I don't recommend this book to anyone except perhaps someone that already knows Perl.
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by Anthony Self (Editor: Courtney Self)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Money Frog, Inc. (2005-09-01)
ISBN: 1598721054
EAN: 9781598721058
Perfect Paperback: 180 pages
Edition: 1
Release Date: 2005-09-01
SKU: 102208012
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...minor wear on cover
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This book is designed to teach multiple subjects important to the real estate professional. Let's face it, most real estate professionals don t have the time to attend computer classes or sit down with a boring technical how-to book and learn how to make a font five different colors! What most professionals want are quick relevant instruction on how to maximize the use of a software product, as applied in selling or buying real estate. This book isn t formatted to be read from the very beginning to the end. Rather it is designed for you to jump from chapter to chapter and learn what you need to accomplish that specific task.
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