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Jeff has plenty of jigs up to satisfy a shaker craftsman. His photos sure beat illustations. I loved the wooden vice and shaker bench plans. Plenty of other unique jigs.

Jeff has plenty of jigs up to satisfy a shaker craftsman. His photos sure beat illustations. I loved the wooden vice and shaker bench plans. Plenty of other unique jigs.

Finally, a handbook that offers sage advice and realistic strategies
for overcoming some of the common client/server glitches that crop
up during application development.

It is not the normal overloaded, technical tome, that you later call a 'reference'
as it collects dust on the shelf. This is the 'guide' you should use to
increase your OPO skills, and assist fellow developers.

This book is one the best technical book I have ever read, Oracle or not.

Coming from a Oracle DBA background, I really appreciate the effort the authors had put into in maintaining data integrity,etc.

Unlike other database front-end tool books, this book really takes pain to remind readers that the front-end does nothing without a sound usage of the underlying data.

The examples in the book are excellent. They are all easy to follow and have advanced usage of OPO techniques, especially the object-oriented programming part.

As the book title implies, this is the book to get if you wanna be a OPO master

What a wonderful and charming book to read. Pepper Cory writes in a easy going manner that makes a person feel like she is right in the room with you. Great ideas on making templates and marking a quilt. I love how she discusses methods of the past as well as the future. It is also fun to look at the older quilts and see the methods as well as read about them. She shows patterns and methods from all over the world, and takes the mystery out of marking a quilt. She encourages a quilter to be creative and take chances, and I plan on taking her up on it. This book is a definite must have for any quilters' library.

This book was wonderful for teaching me how to better mark my quilts. I'm always nervous whenever I mark a quilt, but this book helped me know what markers to use in which situations. I also loved the new quilting designs in the book. Highly recommnded!

If you are in a situation like me, then this might be the best book. I read some introductory long ago at university. A few years from now I needed to refresh on the subject and get a little deeper. I have browsed or read some other books, but this is now my number one choice for reference. It starts very gently with e.g. spelled out examples on matrix addition. It ends with (by my standards) advanced topics like eigenstructures, quadratic forms, generalized inverses etc. I admire the writing style which is compact, precise and at the same time a little relaxed.

There are a lot of people out there who do statistical analysis but who do not possess the mathematical knowledge underpinning a lot of what they are doing (i.e., linear algebra and some calculus). Most of the time people can get away with using stastical software as a sort of 'black box' and not worry about the math. But there are situations when having the background knowledge is crucial.

This book does an excellent job of facilitating self-study of the math underpinning multivariate statistical analysis ... namely, linear (matrix) algebra and some calculus. Each chapter has a set of questions and ALL of the answers are provided in the book (handy for self-study). The one slight critique of this book I can give is that I wish the book did more on the calculus aspects. However, that is a minor comment and the knowledge that this book imparts of linear algebra to self-learners is extremely valuable.

-Provides great tools and points on how to evaluate and manage quality within any organization.

-Fits in your pocket (Yes. It REALLY does!)

Definitely worth the money!

The Memory Jogger is the ideal handbook for improving job-related procedures, systems, quality, and costs on a daily basis. It conveniently presents the tools in two categories: problem identification tools, and problem analysis tools. It also offers a technnique selection guide according to task. Each tools is presented along with three examples: manufacturing, service/administration, and daily-life situations. It is a very, very useful quick reference guide.

However, the upgraded version, "The Memory Jogger II", has been available for quite some time now, and would be a wiser choice.

This book is very good for the beginner or experienced embroider. I found it enjoyable not only to look at, read but very imformative on the style of stitch and how to perform that stitch. A must for any serious embroider's library.

I have only looked through the book but it has just what I was looking for and I know I will not be disappointed when I use metal thread embroidery. I can hardly wait to try it.

This is a very helpful book for solving problems and adding creative solutions. You would never imagine some the tips this book shows you. One way to impress your collegues is using some of these "how-to" solutions. The author explains the answers to the how-to's in easy to understand language. A must have if you are a serious solution provider.

This book is a must have for people who are moving beyond building simple and stock applications in Access. While I have a considerable library of Access books, this is the one I reach for first when I just can't seem to get from point A to point B.

I don't think that I could live with just one Access book, but, if I had two, it would be this and The Access 97 Developers Handbook by the same authors along with Mike Gilbert.

The authors of this book have a gift for making concepts accessible. Their patience and understanding of how to take an explanation step by step and still convey the concept as well as the recipe is rare in a field which is usually filled with prose so deadly that it can only be read by Ben Stein.

The only tiny problem for Access 97 users is that all of the sample databases must be converted -- a mind numbing task.

I have a number of programmers reference manuals and this one is used the most when working with Access. It is NOT for beginners. It is for the seasoned Access programmer or Visual Basic programmer. Many of the examples and tips could be used in either environment. The examples and samples are simple and straight forward, Michael Groh does not have anything to prove, he is a seasoned professional and his teaching style will have you feeling that you 'already knew that.'

I have quite a few books of this kind, some I have attempted to read, others which I have only been brave enough to flick through. A colleague lent me his copy of power toolkit and I must admit, I am hooked. With few exceptions, it is written in very plain english (as opposed to techie speak) with clear examples. I came to this site as I want my own copy!

Until you work with this Tables course and quick reference cards, you probably won't realize the hidden power in using Word tables. This course shows you how in an easy way. I'm a Technical Documentation Specialist who has had to design Sarbanes-Oxley process documents in an IT environment. Understanding how to control content within a table is invaluable. You can create side head labels in margins (like FrameMaker does) that are really just table cells without borders. Do you understand the difference between borders and gridlines? Get this package. It is awesome. It includes a great blurb on Styles, yes styles! Do you want to place graphics so they don't float? Put 'em in a table cell. Design-Write has designed the most comprehensive QRCs and tables course I've ever seen.

I think that I am becoming hooked on these Quick Reference Cards. I bought two other sets earlier and loved them so much that I decided to see what other Cards Design-Write Solutions has put out. I found this "Insert and Work with Tables in Microsoft Office Word 2003" package and was as delighted with the quality of information found there. I use Word 2007 at work and Word 2003 at home for my home based business. I thought of myself as an advanced user of Word 2003. I have used it regularly to create grant proposals, set up budget structures and etc. which usually includes lots of charts, pictures and etc. I didn't use tables much because they always seemed so cumbersome to set up. Through the simple-to-use course, short cut key card and the Quick Reference Card, I was able to learn some new tricks, to use tables to really sharpen and clean up the documents that I make, that have lots of information that needs to be categorized. The use of the tables function in Word has really helped me to give my proposals a clean and organized look that helps them to really stand out.

The Whole Earth Catalog was an revolution when it was first published around 1970. This latest book, now out nearly 5 years, continues the tradition but I wonder if it represents the last of its kind due to the explosion of new knowledge is the past decade and the rise of the Internet as a source of general and specific information on any topic imaginable. The fact that no one else has reviewed it on Amazon as I write this seems to indicate the shift of interest from this excellent resource to other more immediate or specific sources of information.

But in the final analysis, I think everyone should have and use the WEC as it represents and contains the seeds of this information explosion and, though the references it contains may become dated, the ideas, inspiration and permanence it provides are valuable in this day of instant changes.

Perhaps the point of such books is simply to inspire us to change. When I first read the Whole Earth Catalog,and The Whole Earth Epilog (?)I was looking for something.

Thirty years later I am on a different path,leading who knows where.

It wasn't the information in those books that changed me.It was the message that change was possible,and highly probable.

That message I read between the lines,not from the sentences.