Web Books

Seriously, this is the extremely well written sequel to "The Ghosts of Nantucket." It continues, from the point of view of oral history, interviews with year-round and summer residents of Nantucket Island who have actually experienced ghosts. These are unembellished accounts from some rather unlikely and credible sources.

I made the mistake of reading this book while staying in Nantucket in a 200 year-old house. Reading about the hauntings (one of which occured in the house next to where I was staying) got my mind over-active. A guitar in the hallway would inexpicably "ping". One door refused to stay shut -- even though the unlevel floor would have made it more likely for it to remain closed. Oh yes, I suffered during that week. Running up the stairs at night to seclude myself in the bedroom. Did this book make me believe? I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks.

Navigating the Internet: Legal Research on the Web is a well written and organized research tool that provides uselful information for both the web expert and novice. The text, along with the well thought out illustrations, make this research guide to the internet the next staple for law students around the world.

The Internet has a myriad of cases, statutes, legislative materials, rules and regulations, which are free for the taking if one simply knows how to look. Navigating the Internet: Legal Research on the World Wide Web provides the answers. The authors succeed where most books on research fail: they make the subject matter interesting. Navigating the Internet is well written, provides a great explanation of legal research on the 'net, and serves as a very helpful map to sites of interest. Throughout each chapter, the authors provide illustrations of the actual screen the reader will see on the computer, and notations explaining each symbol on the screen. The authors never lose sight of the need for a researcher to be able to repeat the trail. An understanding of what various legal sites have to offer, and how research can be conducted efficiently, will be of immense benefit to attorneys who need to maintain low client fees and to law students and other people interested in legal investigation, who cannot afford access to more expensive research tools. The first three chapters provide a detailed explanation of the internet itself, and are quite useful for the beginner as well as for people who know how to "surf", but don't understand the underlying concepts and mechanics. These chapters address the "world wide web," links, URLs, use of the browser, creation and use of files, and use of search engines by both Boolean and topical methods. By the end of the third chapter, even the novice computer user will feel comfortable with the technology and terminology. More Internet savvy readers may want to skip straight to the substantive chapters. The authors tell the reader the most appropriate research site for finding case law, statutory authority, Constitutional provisions, and secondary authority, such as law review articles. Finding the appropriate research sites is "Step One" in each chapter. The reader is then taken through other phases of the research, such as: how to choose the correct link ("Step Two"), how to find material in the appropriate jurisdiction(s) ("Step Three"), how to find a the relevant authority if a name is known ("Step Four"), and how to search for relevant authority when the reader only knows the topic, but not a specific case or statutory title ("Step Five"). Every chapter provides exercises by which to reinforce the concepts. The appendices provide valuable information about getting online, the application of Boolean terms, and a list of relevant web sites. As an Instructor of Law, I highly recommend Navigating the Internet: Legal Research on the World Wide Web to practitioners as well as to students, as a mastery of this area of research allows the reader access to valuable information at little or no cost. (c)August 22, 2000. Philip C. Kaplan, Instructor, Suffolk University School of Law.* *This review is excerpted and modified from a review which will appear in the September issue of Suffolk University Law School's Bimonthly Review of Law Books, which is edited by Professors Michael Rustad and Edward Bander.

Sellers and buyers on the Internet today have rarely ventured beyond the boundaries of print and broadcast metaphors in the Internet medium. While Internet uptake is dramatic, the business revolution has hardly begun. The real power of this new medium lies in its ability to allow the buyer and the seller to connect, communicate and negotiate in a faster, more efficient way. The dramatic rise and fall of "dot-com" companies was very much rooted in over extending the wrong metaphor, and that misconception largely continues.

In Net Benefits, Wingham Rowan has dared to think beyond the traditional broadcast metaphor and consider how marketplaces that exploit this new medium might operate. In their most highly developed state electronic marketplaces would act like the automated exchange behind international currency trading, or the automated exchange recently introduced to the Pacific Stock Exchange. These systems efficiently and impartially match buyers and sellers, and price becomes a function of current supply and demand. The revolution comes in their potential to replace the current marketing techniques designed to exploit the fragmented and inefficient matching of buyers and sellers inherent in paper and broadcast media.

This book forces us to question the attention paid to the recent dot-com model, the new Internet superstores, portals and the struggle for megamarkets. It suggests that perhaps these are just comfortable diversions along the way to the real revolution. Just as the Industrial Revolution grew out of the cottage industries so the new Interactive Revolution will grow from the seeds of atomized capitalism. The use of the web by small and local businesses for local and regional commerce will quietly undercut the current order of mega-merchants.

While the book considers detailed scenarios of how this revolution might impact a number of service areas, it stops short of perhaps the most profound impact, our concepts and opportunities for corporate ownership and investment in this new world. If you buy Rowan's view of the future, one wonders what will happen to a world of personal investment that relies on ever higher profits and stock values of large and growing corporations. Individual and small scale operations do not require the capital ownership or offer the individual growth potential of today's corporations. The stock portfolios of today may begin to look like the castles and estates during the last economic revolution as their ongoing value slips below their cost of maintenance. The dislocation would be as severe as the Industrial Revolution.

Whether the revolution takes the form of guaranteed electronic markets as Rowan envisions, or follows some other variant, is immaterial. The real electronic commerce revolution will be much more subtle in its approach and more devastating in its impact than anything we have seen so far. Net Benefits, at the very least, starts us thinking outside the traditional metaphors.

This is one hell of a vision. I read Small is Beautiful which was a great idea but not really workable in advanced countries. This guy seems to have worked out how to make "atomised capitalism" more efficient than what we think is going to happen with e-commerce. I can't stop thinking about it.

All about what teachers and their students are learning online, showing why and how the Internet has become invaluable in the classroom. These pioneering educators share how they overcame barriers such as the lack of funds, a skeptical administration, a fearful community, and limited technical support. Quite possibly the teacher's "Internet-in-the-classroom bible."

With technology being the wave of the future, this book helps a teacher learn how to use it in the classroom. With real life classroom examples and step to step processes on how to get started this book makes it easy for the internet to become an everyday activity. Great ideas and very motivating! Connecting and encouraging your students to use the internet has never seemed easier. I can't wait to get started!

From how digital commerce and democracy affects taxation, privacy and free speech to legal platforms for protecting and regulating property rights and documents online, Netpolicy.com provides a social examination of how the internet's capabilities are creating new public agendas for change. An important title for any social issues class.

This book is both scholarly and entertaining, for it describes the history, influence, and possible future of today's most fascinating tool, the Net, and does so through the lens of a person whose career was focused first on telecommunications and later on computers. Just as these have come together in the Internet and elsewhere, so does this story, which for Simon began in 1966. The Net itself is now over a quarter-century old, but for its first two decades was largely ignored by the public. Since 1995, however, an exponential growth in popular and commercial interest has created a similar, and continuing, explosion of the Net. It is difficult to think of any earlier technological development whose adoption occurred so rapidly or with such ease. And unlike most high-tech inventions, the Net developed organically, independent of any master plan or architecure, absent of security considerations or privacy concerns, hardly shaped at all by economic factors. Sharing was, and remains, its goal. Today, however, the Net impacts our everyday life and has become an enabler for business to expand its markets. It is hence now entrusted with private information of individuals and secret proprietary data of business, whose security may be essential to commercial survival. Ubiquitous as it is, the Net cries out for public, and private, policies that address such troublesome issues as equitable access,taxation, intellectual property rights, content regulation, privacy, security, first-amendment rights, and many others.

NetPolicy.Com defines the Net and its impacts and discusses "the bearable lightness of the digital world," the convergence not only within electronics, but the mega-convergence of businesses, e.g., financial services, commerce, and industry. It identifies difficult policy issues and their legal framework and suggests appropriate roles for the public and private sectors. Despite the importance of the Net to business and government, its essential issues have most to do with its potential effects on humankind.

We are reminded of the 1998 celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, largely drawn from the French Declaration of Human Rights and our Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, quoting from the former document the freedom to "seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Would that today's policy makers have the prescience of the author of those words!

NetPolicy.Com is recommended for readers with intellectual curiosity, anyone interested in modern technology, observers of contemporary customs, any person who surfs the Net or sends e-mail, indeed for all responsible citizens who wish to learn more about this new world in which we live, interdependent on each other and literally interconnected to everyone else.

Finally, NetPolicy.Com's technical title disguises a book that is an easy and important read.

I was very happy with my purchase. I received the item fast and for more than half the price that was offered to me from the school's vendor. I will recommend ordering from amazon for everything. I was very pleased.

This is by far my favorite english book I've ever had! The content is organized so well that it's incredibly easy to find whatever you're looking for. I didn't even have to really read anything because I could so easily find what I was looking for. Very nice! The language is simple, concise, not inflated, and straight to the point. Very easy to understand.

I purchased this book when it first came out. He gave the name of the company he did this for in his ad for the book at the time. I simply typed in "cell phone" into each search engine and his site was number 1,2 or 3 on ALL of them. It's a great book and since then I've spoken with him numerous times on the phone he's also a consultant...all's I'll say is this guy KNOWS the inside dope on marketing...HIGHLY recommended.

I read through Nothing But 'Net this morning and must say that Michael Campbell has done an outstanding job of explaining the state of the art in Internet promotion techniques, tools and resources.

I think it is one of the best "How To" books on Internet Marketing techniques that I've seen. I highly recommend it.

What is beneficial to you as a writer, what do you need to make your career in the writing world possible? A guide to bring you a step closer to reaching your dreams.
If you are starting out as a new writer, whether you want to get into or do write poetry, e-books, articles, even audio books, or have been writing for awhile and want a little help getting published and recognized. This practical guide is for you.

Concise explanations of definitions, detailed examples of the different types of publishers, book reviewers, editors, literary agents, etc. Followed by names of companies and a brief description of what formats they want and the genres they are interested in. It also includes links to their websites, e-mail addresses and who to contact, what they offer and prices to get you started on the road to a successful writing career.

A lot of research and patience has gone into this book; well arranged and methodical, easy to read and written in plain English. Although many of the website links provided were unfortunately not connecting, do not exist or the domain name had expired. It would be hard to keep a guide like this updated as so many websites do not always survive, but otherwise it has very useful information.

For those of us who do not know or understand the writing world language and where to start, this book is a great first step on your road to becoming a successful writer. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is trying to start a career in the writing world.

As an author as well as freelancer, this reader of Ms. Jackson's book has provided invaluable information on the how-to's and wheres to gain access to almost any question a writer could ask. Organized in easy to read, well organized and informative sections and topics, Ms. Jackson offers her experience and know how to both novice and veteran writers. An added bonus is her easy, friendly manner in approaching her topics, and the friendly way in which she offers advice. I felt like I was getting advice from an old friend.

Jeanette's book outlines several tips you can apply right away. She makes generating online profits easy, affordable, and fun! Use this book to generate increased traffic to your website and more content for your web visitors to read.

Jeanette Cates' Online $uccess Tactics: 101 Ways To Build Your Small Business is a simple, straight forward, no-nonsense, "user friendly" collection of tips, tricks, and techniques designed to harness the power of the World Wide Web for low-cost promotion, visibility, sales, service and support, and more. Each page lists a different helpful idea, offering an excellent starter spark for go-getting businesses everywhere. Written for the entrepreneur and business owner, Online $uccess Tactics will prove a practical, accessible, immediately applicable "how to" manual that will swiftly improve and enhance a company's performance where it really counts -- the bottom line.

The book is well-written, particularly helpful for people they have little or no experience in Open Source. It saves time giving advice and proposing GNU products for various web-services. The most important for me was Part III, where the subject becomes more demanding and difficult : Scalability, Availability, Site-Management and Load-Balancing. Though I have not test them yet, the proposed solutions seem applicable, sound and reasonable and integrate the endeavour for a complete Open Source environment.

I'm a little biased because I hooked Thomas up with the SAMs editors, my brother was a collaborator on his earlier book, and I helped out with this one, but I only confess this to put my biases on the table: I would not have done any of that if I didn't think Thomas Schenk was up to the task, and he exceeded my wildest dreams as an opensource writer.

This is not just another book about configuring webservers. Yes, it includes how to configure the systems, how to cluster servers and all that hot jazz, but far more importantly, this book asks you to face those hard questions that make the difference between a webserver and a business webserver. This is a book from someone who knows what he's talking about; Tom was the server master behind Deja.com and currently consults for Penguin Computing. He knows your server is not a mere capital asset; a successful web venture depends on vitality and communications as much as it depends on throughput and uptime.

This is also not just another book about Linux and Apache; Tom goes to the heart of the business case for opensource on mission critical systems. There are example applications of many alternative server, eBusiness and content management packages, but these are brandnames that will change with time: The essential lessons of opensource that emerge from the many case studies will continue to be valuable long after all these names have vanished from memory.