Domain Books

I don't normally read historical novels. I picked this one up because somehow it got nominated for the libertarian Prometheus Award (which usually goes to science fiction.) I was very pleasantly surprised. The characters are vivid and original, the plotting interesting, and the storyline zings along like a first rate thriller. I particularly enjoyed the dialogue of the Dorien Trozen character -- he's like a character out of an Ayn Rand novel, with more dry wit. Be forewarned, however, that this is the first book of a trilogy, the third book of which was never published. Ms. Carey, can't you find another publisher for Hail Nation? Check out publishing opportunities at pulpless.com -- you could publish over the Internet, cheap. We're dying out here.

Without doubt Dickens best short story; first heard it being performed by the actor Simon Callow (this man brings Dickens alive like no other!).

Dickens was a great champion for social reform in the Victorian age; this story is prime example of his ability to touch the raw nerve of social conscience.

A little known book in the vast collection of his writings, but probably his best.

Humour and pathos wonderfully brought together.

This book was such a great guilty pleasure to read, I didn't want it to end. A nuclear attack on London forces survivors to take refuge under the streets in the subways and fallout shelters, little do they realize...there are large mutant flesh eating rats searching for food!. Scary/gory (B) movie fun ensues. Flawed in parts but great in others, what a powerful beginning!, hooks you in the first few pages and moves along like a freight train to it's shudder inducing climax.

A pithy 600 pages of the most fascinating intellectual property reading I have ever came across. I especially like the examples regarding the Indian conglomerate Tatas and the adult entertainment industry. Worth every penny of the 200 Yankee dollar price!

This excellent book reviews the history of the Oregon Caves, the Oregon Caves National Monument, and the historic buildings at the monument, such as The Chateau and Chalet. The author, Steve Mark, is the National Park Service historian for the Oregon Caves. Domain of the Cavemen is the official Historic Resource Study of Oregon Caves National Monument. As such it is a detailed but very readable document and includes extensive research notes to back up the information presented. This book features lots of historic photos and copies of historic ads for the Caves. Published by the U.S. National Park Service, 2006.

In this book, Alistair Sutcliffe steps back and examines reuse conceptually and soberly from a broad historic and analytical framework. He puts the reuse discipline on firm ground. He takes our hand, steps back and asks us to take a tour of the broader landscape. How has reuse evolved in other disciplines? He explores this question not by hollow or superficial analogy, but with a constant subtext that rigorously grounds the necessary arguments and concepts. What, exactly, are we trying to reuse, and where does the most payoff lie in reuse if it indeed does exist? Perhaps it isn't in the reuse of artifacts at all, but in the reuse of knowledge. Even the reuse of data and interpreted data--information--has value. We can dare talk about wisdom reuse. Knowledge reuse itself is a broad topic ranging from rules and heuristics to procedures and propositions and, yes, even to designs. And reuse is an interdisciplinary phenomenon that builds on the business considerations one finds in enterprise modeling, the economic analyses of investment, the social analyses of process, the psychological models of conceptualization, as well as the technical models of design and technology. It is a broad and refreshing tour that reveals a landscape that surrounds all of us, but which few are able to see.

This book is excellent. It deals with why we need domain specific modeling (DSM), starting off with business value- then defines DSM and provides an architecture for it - the language, the models, code generation, a framework and the process that connects all of these. It follows this with 5 detailed case studies and then towards the end talks about uses and tools.

I enjoyed reading it and am planning to implement in my projects. The authors are associated with a tool that does DSM - Metaedit+ found at metacase dot com and which has a trial download.

i am a student at a good college, and i had her as a professor. she may have been a little testy, but a darn good scholar, and she knows her stuff. She recently published her dissertation, and i recommend that, because i helped edit it, even if she dosen't give me the credit. overall i guarantee you walk away with something good from any of her books.

buy it, read it, feed your head.

Please don't be alarmed by the caveat suggested by my review title, it's really not as bad as it seems. It's certainly not affected my rating of the book, which is a superb translation altogether: E. P. Robins, under the auspices of ProjectGutenberg. I have the ebook in .lit format, gotten from Abacci, and I wanted a physical copy to hold; I certainly could have purchased the Penguin edition for some ten dollars cheaper, but the translation, pah. It might as well have been translated by William Shatner, and captures none of the grit of the Battle of Sedan, much less the nuanced, provocative homosociality of Jean and Maurice.

That said, I find myself a bit baffled over this Hard Press publishing company and its...legitimacy. I'm not sure how it operates, if it's some sort of third party publisher or what, but I received the book and discovered it was sans title page. I suppose I should have gathered as much while previewing the novel on Amazon (to ascertain the translation), but I simply thought it was omitted from the "Search Inside!" No cataloguing information, no copyright date, not even a mention of the translator or ProjectGutenberg as in the ebook format. Baffling.

Fishiness aside, the print is legible and evenly-spaced, and the binding is unusually sturdy for a springy paperback. Perhaps the substantial weight (451 pages, consolidated from the ebook's 620) demands it. It's a very spare, nondescript edition that belies the evocative prose within; I feel almost like a Soviet-era reader who's gotten my turn with the latest literary contraband by Solzhenitsyn.

Set in the late 19th century in a small resort on the shore south of Boston, this book explores the roles of men and women, and career. It is a lovely glimpse into the time period, and carries clear and interesting descriptions of character and place.

Though it does not specify, it is certainly set at the Idelwild Hotel in Manomet, and people who are familiar with that setting will be particularly intrigued with this story.