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Internet Bible, 2nd Edition is a very informative reference book covering the whole spectrum of Internet from modem configuration to ISPs, browsers, e-mails, search engines to creating web contents. The CD-Rom adds further value to this piece of reference work which has been priced very reasonably.

Some of the other topics covered by this book are essential for every web user which includes online privicy and security, protecting kids on the Internet, online shopping, gaming and business and NetMeetings.

I will recommend this book to anybody who would like to learn the Internet and the World Wide Web from scratch and would like to find everthing that he or she is looking in one book!!

This book is a great reference for any internet related item or problem on my computer. I would recommend it to anyone -- novice to expert!

I am steadily working through the book and have found it to be excellent. The index covers as many topics as you can imagine plus a whole lot more!

This 2001/02 edition provides a guide to federal government web sites which will prove an invaluable reference for any seeking departments of the Treasury, Justice, HUD, Defense and more. From parks and preserves to air force libraries, Internet Blue Pages is packed with solid reference details which may change of time, but probably not as quickly as the usual web site reference.

As an internet neophyte, I'm having some difficulty navigating. It is wonderful to have such a tool as the Internet Blue Pages, which not only gives you all the government web sites, but has a myriad of links to related sites. Buy this book!

The size of the United States Government has grown by leaps and bounds since its humble beginning a little over two hundred years ago. The founding fathers of this country probably never envisioned such rapid growth. Many of us living today probably wished it hadn't. Anyway, we must live with it. Fortunately, we can all benefit from our tax money at work by logging onto a number of government Websites and glean from the vast amounts of information available at them.

Laurie Andriot has compiled an extensive number of government Websites in Internet Blue Pages to offer her readers a heavy-hitting source of government resources. Information gleaned from these sites can help readers make better business decisions, assist them in finding employment, make it easier for them to obtain veterans services, help them to keep up on the latest Washington news and lawmaking (and law-breaking), and much more!

Readers will be able to access tons of government policy and regulatory information covering a variety of issues, including health, safety, food, finances, employment, military, transportation, civil rights, the arts and sciences, and social issues that affect our country and our way of living. I was quite surprised to see a Website listed for the RAF Mildenhall Air Force Base located in England. I had visited this base a number of times while serving in the Air Force at another base in this same country!

Andriot offers brief but helpful commentary on many of the sites listed, including the historical background and roles of many government offices and agencies we have heard about and perhaps a few we never knew existed! Readers are encouraged to read through these blue pages to learn more about the government that has pledged to serve our best interests.

Regardless of what your opinion is of the current administration and congressional representation, our government has plenty of useful information available to meet a variety of personal and business needs. One can tell by the size of this book that there is plenty to go around. This book provides a heavy dose of it. It is ideal for people who either want to do business with our government agencies or want to learn how best to keep them off their backs!

This is a great book - I recommend it for beginning to intermediate users. It provides both a working knowledge, as well as some social information as well. Good for the student that already thinks they know it all but doesn't.

Excellent book. Current and up to date. This book was required reading for a three unit class that I am currently taking. I was surprised at how current the information is. Buy this book if you would like to learn more about the Internet.

If you are looking for a GREAT introduction to the World Wide Web and the Internet, then this is the book for you! No other book on the market compares in content. It is informative and has great examples and exercises. Even those who have been using this Internet for years will find that this book will serve to round out your understanding as well as give you some excellent tips for using the Internet in new ways! Don't take my word for it, check it out!

For those who want to discover the actual Internet in its diferent dimensions. Esay to read, hard to beat. A very usefull and complete guide to the Net comprehension. Just a must !

You have been using the internet for several years and you think you know how to get around fairly well, right? Well you might want to take a look at this book and find out how much you are missing and how more you can get out of the internet and the resources available to you.

John Levine is truly an expert when it comes to understanding, navigating and fully tapping the potential of the vast empire we call the internet. His book is a plethora of information that you won't be able to find in any other book on the market today.

From what browsers do to email and the power of emailing, Web site designing, e-commerce, communicating through the internet, XML, chatting and so many other topics covered this book is the one stop reference book for everyone.

The author includes a cd with utilities for the pc and the Mac, from WS_FTP, WinZip, and Adobe Acrobat Reader, copies of the Netscape Communicator and Internet Explorer and finally Mind Spring software in case you need an ISP. You'll be investing in the future and the price is well worth it.

This is a fine book, it covers just about everything to do with the internet that you could want, it is concise and yet has excellent secret tips - I am talking about very rare and highly useful tidbits.

I've been using the net since '88 and this is the first book I've seen covering it all so very very neatly. The nitty gritty, behind the scenes and all in a very well organised, highly readable manner.

I believe even a complete beginner could learn a lot from this, although if you are a beginner you might be overwhelmed at first by the sheer volume of the whole book, you will find that you can take one relevant section at a time.

For experts, I am sure you will find something of value in every chapter, for us it is like a fascinating casual read, and may reveal things that have mystified you all these years.

Finally it is very up to date.

- TOTAL BEGINNER : good, but you might need some sort of visual guide first, or tutoring.

- BEGINNER and INTERMEDIATE : you will learn a lot from this book.

- EXPERIENCED : discover what has really been going on in the background all this time.

- EXPERT : probably do not NEED this book, probably know a lot already, but I think you will enjoy it nonetheless, and as it covers so many areas it might round you out in ways you did not expect.

- DEVELOPER : could provide inspirations, and you know what they're worth.

If you are involved in E-Business Intelligence, then this is a book worth reading. I enjoyed Kimball's "Building the Data Webhouse" and Mena's "Mining your web site", but this book takes a different perspective on the subject. Each of these books provide their own view on how the Internet had affected business intelligence.

There is a lot of detail in this book that would make it of interest to an implementer. It discusses many of the technologies used to build an Internet enabled application, such as XML, CWMI and Java. For example, in the section on Java, the author discusses the Java beans, the OLAP API and the data mining API. The book even provides some discussion on how you can use an application server in a business intelligence system.

I would definitely recommend this to any IT professional interested in the subject.

There are a lot of books on business intelligence and the web, some of them are better than others. Typically the focus of these books is on click stream analysis and focus on the CRM aspects of business intelligence over the web. While these topics are discussed, there is more to this book.

This book is a bit different and is interesting for both the novice and the experienced system implementer. The book gives a history of Internet, both from a technical and economic perspective. It even deals with how the Internet works. Answering such questions as why an IP address is an unreliable way of identifying customers over the net. The book looks at both collecting data for business intelligence applications as well as how to deploy these applications over the net using Internet technology. It discusses some of the aspects of the Java language that makes it well suited for develop BI applications. It also presents various Java API's developed for business intelligence.

I really enjoyed reading this book. At times reading a heavy technology book can be a bit dry. This book is not like that. At times he will introduce topics with discussions that seem off the topic, but in the`end lead back to main point. In fact, these diversions actually helped my understanding of the subject. While this is certainly a serious book, there were times I laughed out loud. This is a good book for understanding business intelligence over the Internet. If you are interested in this subject, by all means you should read this book.

This book provides an excellent foundation in understanding the how to build a business intelligence system in an Internet enabled world. The author makes the point that the Internet has changed a lot about the business world, part of the change is how we do business intelligence.

The beginning of the book was very interesting. It describes the history of the Internet from the early 1960's through the 90's. It also goes into the economic forces formed to create the popularity of the Internet. That is just the beginning though.

Don't mistake this for some soft, "touchy-feely" book on IEBI though. The book digs deep into details. It describes the implementation of three tiered architectures, Java, Java Beans. There is an entire chapter on CWMI and another on XML and XSL. It is a very good read. The final section of the book is dedicated to applying IEBI to CRM. It deals with how and why you would want to use cookies to track customer behavior.

The author makes the point that there is no one book that will cover all aspects of IEBI, but anyone interested in doing business intelligence in an Internet enabled world should read this book.

What a great book! Easy to read, easy to understand

Thanks to Joan Bannan for authoring a book a student can understand!!

I am a registered nurse, currently working on a master's degree in Administrative Studies. I have cited this book extensively in my professional report--a paper outlining utilization of coursework in the workplace. My report involves streamlining the policy and procedure system in a small hospital. This book has been invaluable in developing a project proposal to enhance workplace communication.

Wanted to say how much I enjoyed reading Intranet Document Management. I am a novice Intranet/Extranet Developer (worked on 2 projects to completion), and found this book to be the best computer-related book I own. Joan Bannan does not bombard the reader with techno-babble; computer terms and concepts are explained with clarity, providing a guide to managing Intranet documents for novices and experienced professionals alike who may desire a written frame of reference to guide them in their own projects.

The result is a book with with well-thought-out organization and excellent readability.

This books gives a view on the present capability of the internet and the magnificent future of it.

This book is perfect for anyone wishing to use the Internet to assist their investing. It is well written and contains links to a number of useful web sites that I did not know about. Highly recommended.

A fantasic book. The first book I've come across that treats the online financial world as truly international (life beyond the NYSE!). Good section on choosing an online broker. The directory of investment web sites at the back of the book is very comprehensive, and the rating system is useful.

Excellent examples and the author understands very well the didactic process when you are learning the java language alone at home !

A friend had attended a Java programming course and the Beyond the Buttons had been the book used on the course. He said he found it very useful and encouraged me to borrow it. I had some fairly limited programming experience ( Cobol ) but was a long time ago and I was a little apprehensive about attempting to learn Java.

The book more than exceeded my expectations. One of the things I particularly liked were the short concise code examples that show you how various programming concepts work in a program . The book does not claim to be an introduction to Java programming, but, with my outdated knowledge and half forgotten experience I had no trouble in gaining a pretty good understanding of what Java is about and how use it.

I am a lecturer at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and I am very impressed with this hands-on approach to learning Java. After being at a loss for a Java textbook that can be prescribed for students that will explain concepts to 1st year students, yet that can be used by 4th year students, this book is a must. 2007 will be the third year that we are prescibing this textbook. The textbook has very clear and direct explanations enbabling the reader to create an image in their minds of object oriented programming. From classes and objects, to Applets and Files, the content is mapped out well and there is a common thread that runs through the book. Whether you are a first-time Java learner or an experienced programmer wanting to get a handle on complex concepts, this book will be of benefit to you. It is a textbook that will be used over and over again. There are two chapters on threads which can be tricky, yet this textbook explains the concept very well. What is very benficial for students is the fact that there are "Test Yourself" questions at the end of each chapter. At the end of the textbook there are three appendixes which provide an overview of some new programming features, give an explanation of counting systems and provide some insight into floating-point values. Overall it is an excellent book and I can Highly recommend it. The author, Robin Knox-Grant, is also very approachable and happy to explain and assist wherever possible.

In October of 1995, only 40% of the "National Law Journal" 250[1] law firms had registered domain names, and only 10%[2] of the NLJ 250 firms had Web sites. A little more than two years later, the prediction that "it will soon be the rule, rather than the exception, that a law-related organization is on the Internet" has come true.[3] Today all but one of the NLJ 250 firms has registered a domain name, and 60% have Web sites.

Why is this important? Because it means that the Internet is finally ready for prime time! And it means that there is no reasonable way to include "all" of the law-related organizations on the Net in this book. So what's a perfectionist to do? The only rational choice is to make editorial decisions about who gets included in this book and who does not. So while earlier efforts focused on cataloging "all" of the law-related resources into one book, this book focused on cataloging the best of all the law-related resources.

For example, in the companies chapter, we include major vendors, focusing on those that publish something of substance - preferably for free - on the Internet.[4] We also included smaller companies who are, for one reason or another, making a difference on the Internet. Companies whose content focus is limited to a particular state are briefly mentioned in the reviews of each particular state. In the law firm chapter, we've included NLJ 250 law firms as well as small law firms that have made great strides in Internet publishing. We're open to suggestions about how to improve future editions of this book.

Our goal was to create a reference book that would help novices and net.veterans get the most out of their Internet experiences. For example, a new Internet user looking for tax law resources would get a very good feel for the best of the Internet tax-related resources by looking in the index of this book under "tax" for organizations whose practice areas include tax. Similarly, net.veterans looking to maximize their online experience - both as consumers and publishers of information - would enjoy our spirited reviews of all of the NLJ 250 law firm Web sites to see what is working and what is not.

Much has changed over the last two years. BBSs, Gopher, WAIS, and even Usenet are dead or dying. E-mail is becoming a more popular way to get the word out, and e-mail users are struggling with how to filter out the unwanted e-mail from the mix. And the jury is still out on technologies such as PointCast, which delivers multimedia to users' desktops, but not by e-mail.[5] On the horizon are new developments like Internet-based telephone and fax service, unified messaging, and video.

We have also seen consolidation in the Internet marketspace and the legal Internet marketspace. WorldCom has purchased UUNet and MCI, and Microsoft has purchased everything but the Justice Department. In the legal market, Counsel Connect was sold, bought, and consolidated with its former competitor the New York Law Publishing Company (of Law Journal EXTRA! fame). Reed and Thomson continue to grow their two huge empires.

In the final analysis, we're hoping that the information overload that is the Internet will still require somebody to weed through the millions of Web sites (and other Internet resources) to find the most important, most reliable, and most influential ones. And who better to help than the American Bar Association, whose mission in life is member services. We're pleased to be able to play a small part in shaping the legal Internet community, and we hope to be able to continue to do so for years to come.

Thanks for reading!

[1] The "National Law Journal" 250 (NLJ 250) is an annual survey conducted by the New York Law Publishing Company. This is the 20th anniversary of the NLJ 250 survey, which is the legal community's equivalent of the "Fortune" 1000.

[2] According to "The Legal List, Law-Related Resources on the Internet and Elsewhere," seventh edition, October 1995, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, by Erik J. Heels.

[3] Id. or ibid., we're not sure; or perhaps ego. The key to being a successful visionary is to make lots and lots of predictions in print and then reference only those that came true.

[4] Trust us, if you build it, they "will" come. Content is still king. And presentation is queen, experience - kind of like a knight. OK, so we're reaching here. Chess enthusiasts will appreciate the analogy. More on content, presentation, and experience in the section entitled "Three Elements of a Successful Web Site."

[5] And you never ever know what juries will do. Check out Matthew Bender's review to see what they're doing with PointCast.

The author is a wonderful writer and they new what they were talking about. it was a very interesting experience

Erik Heels, author of the first serious Internet legal research bibliography, and Rick Klau, another Net pioneer, are lawyers who are uniquely well qualified to understand the Internet and explain it to others.

This book has many useful points, not the least of which is that it serves as a field manual for lawyers interested in establishing or upgrading their own Internet sites.

The authors' reviews of law firm web sites, at their own web site, have been deservedly influential.

In general, I am not enthusiastic about paper books that are merely catalogs of web sites. This book is different because the authors add value through analysis and judgment.

Jerry Lawson

Anyone who works in the Library and Information field need to get this book. This resource will save you alot of mental and financial problems as well as stress. The author does not make the assumption that the reader knows the subject area. This resource is written so that a layperson can understand it. After every chapter there are references that one can peruse if he/she so desires. The appendix is wonderful. The table of contents is methodical and logical. It is a great reference resource and a good read!!

While the book has 9 plus chapters, the fifth chapter makes a sense, as it is a detailed section on motivations that are not-secular, non-business, and non-academic areas.

The chapters of the book are:
1 Questions and Answers about the First Amendment: Sex, Lies, and Cyberspace 1
2 Basic First Amendment Principles and Their Application to Libraries 25
3 The Sexual Conundrum 45
4 The Right to Offend 62
5 Religious Motivations and Library Use 72
6 Just between You and Your Librarian--Library Confidentiality Laws 84
7 Workplace Issues: Employee Free Speech and Harassment 92
8 Children, Schools, and the First Amendment 105
9 Cyberspace--The Last Frontier 125
Appendixes
A The Library Bill of Rights and Its Interpretations 147
B Guidelines for the Development and Implementation of Policies, Regulations and Procedures Affecting Access to Library Materials, Services and Facilities 176
C Guidelines and Considerations for Developing a Public Library Internet Use Policy 180
D Dealing with Concerns about Library Resources 188
E Conducting a Challenge Hearing 191
F Policy on Confidentiality of Library Records 196
G Policy concerning Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information about Library Users 198
Glossary 201
Index

Worth a new edition.

The First Amendment is an integral philosophical and political concept embedded in academic and community library system operations. The First Amendment And Cyberspace answers the questions librarians and library patrons most often have about the First Amendment and library services. Included the issues of basic First Amendment principles and their application to libraries, the right to offend, religious motivations and library use, library confidentiality laws, cyberspace and the First Amendment. A special chapter focuses on children, schools and the First Amendment. Essential reading for library students, librarians, library administrators, and library board members, Robert Peck's The First Amendment And Cyberspace is enhanced with appendices on American Library Association policies and recommendations including Conducting a Challenge Hearing; Guidelines and Considerations for Developing a Public Library Internet Use Policy; and Policy on Confidentiality of Library Records.