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Although it's a few years old, NetLaw still does a great job outlining the various legal issues that affect Internet users and service providers.

Although most people will use this book as a reference, I really enjoyed reading it from cover to cover. Having done so, it makes a great reference.

Really a great book. Mr Rose ability of writing in plain english without sacrifying the purity of legal language is unique. NetLaw is not an "how-to" book, but give reader a precise legal framework (that never become obsolete) of net-behavior main problems, useful both for professional and private people. We're waiting for the next edition, come on, Lance||

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.

When a friend of mine who is interested in stuff like anthropology, langauges etc gave this book to me, my response was 'do you think i can understand this?' After much convincing by her, I opened this book and literally didn't put it down until after i finished it! It got me intested in learning about the origin of langauages, peoples etc. Will recommend to everyone!!!

One People One Language
Rangi Ranganath
Authors OnLine Ltd
40 Castle Street, Hertford SG14 1HR, England
ISBN: 0755201736, $17.95, 284 pp, 2005

Quoting from the back cover of this book:

"The two great hoaxes of today:

1. All human life began only in Africa
2. Language and agriculture were developed in the Middle East

This book shatters both"

What is this book about, who is this man who refutes these theories, how does he substantiate his hypothesis, and who would want to read this book?

What is this book about?
Rangi Ranganth's theory, which briefly stated is:

Around Circa 200,000,000 years ago, three tectonic plates of the super landmass Antarctic split from the mother plate and started drifting carrying common elements. The largest of them drifted to the northwest and is now Africa. A smaller plated drifted northeast and is Australia. The smallest plate, in the shape of a triangle, drifted directly north towards Asia and is now India. When it crashed into Asia, it created the greatest mountain range in the world-the Himalayas, along with the Hindu Kush in northern India, the Caucasus in southern Russia, and the Alps in Europe.

Prior to the crash, Earth had a temperate climate with warm winds and spun clockwise creating western wind movement. There were no large mountains in Asia and Europe at this time. Much of the northern hemisphere was covered in ice. At the southern fringe of this ice was Siberia-a land of forest. Much of Arabia was under water. Earth was home to large reptiles called dinosaurs, which could exist only in warm climates.

After the crash, the tall Himalayas blocked the moisture-laden clouds and northeast India developed into a rainforest wherein life began-from the lemurs and bush babies to human beings. The giant dinosaurs living in north India, China and Europe perished due to the change in climate. Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus, great apes, roamed in the land of India 15,000,000 year ago.

Apes, Neanderthals, and Cro-Magnons traveled from India to Central Asia, Persia, Arabia and parts of Europe. Around 50,000 years fully developed people of Indian origin trickled into Persia, Arabia, Central Asia, ancient Anatolia, and the Pyrenees mountains in western Europe. Around 8000 B.C. a small group of Caucasians from the southeastern section of the Caucasus mountain range settled at the eastern shore of a fresh water lake in Southern Russia. A small river fed into the lake and the lake fed into the Mediterranean Sea.

It was around 5550 B.C. when the northern glacier melt caused The Great Flood-the greatest diaspora in human history. Within days, the lake had become a major sea and ocean levels rose 600 feet. The people fled in all directions and from these people developed thousands of tribes over time with different cultures and languages--mistakenly construed to be different races. When in truth, they are all one people.

Who is Rangi Ranganath?
He was born in India where he acquired a Bachelor's degree in engineering. He came to the United States in 1963 and acquired a Master's degree in engineering from Columbia University. He specializes in energy and energy conservation and is a self-employed energy consultant in New York. He has traveled to Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, and Venezuela, and is currently a citizen in the US living in Uniondale, New York.

How does he substantiate his hypothesis?
The heart and soul of this book is his in-depth study and presentation of the evolution of languages starting with the Tamil of India and including Sanskrit, Basque, Russian, Greek, Arabic, German, Italian, English, Finnish, Latin, Spanish, Persian, Urdo, Polish, Turkish, French, Irish, Armenian, Hindi, Hebrew, Japanese, Gaelic, Estonian, Lithuanian--how all these language evolved from one language.

Who would be interested in reading this book?
All cultural and physical anthropologists, anyone interested in the evolution of man and his cultures, students of linguistics, lovers of language. His theory, as presented in the book, would be clear to the average reader. However, his presentation of the evolution of language is really for serious students. I have a degree in anthropology and have studied linguistics myself, as it is a significant tool used in studying the movement, cultures, and history of man.

One People One Language-an appropriate title for this book.

Congratulations, Rangi. One certainly can appreciate the amount of hard work and dedication it took to put this book together. I wish you much success!

Reviewer: Kaye Trout - March 18, 2006 - Copyright

If you're interested in online contract formation law from a multi-jurisdictional perspective, then get this book. This is the definitive text on the subject, destined to remain so for many years to come. You'll find yourself returning to it again and again. Written in Kinsella's usual engaging style, you won't be able to put it down. Who'd have thought such dry subject matter could come alive like this?

Everything Mr. Kinsella does is done with a certain flair, Online Contract Formation is no exception.

While reading Dees' book, I began to feel like Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: "Everything's clear now." For those of us "tweens" who were born in the era of the manual typewriter and have learned to speak "computer," but with a severe accent, this book in invaluable. For years, we've had to listen to the computer pros talking about POPs, DIMMs, ISDNs, ITPs, and FTPs and all we could do is nod our heads in understanding. Dees takes these concepts, and many others, and puts them in a form that is clear, concise and understandable.

Dees walks you through what you need to know: hardware, ISPs, Microsoft Outlook, e-mail, newsgroups, and the worldwide web. While Dees could overwhelm you with lots of technical jargon, he writes in plain English which is understandable and easy to follow. I found myself sitting at my computer and working through many of the steps that Dees discussed. His discussion of online security and protecting yourself was especially useful in these days when privacy is often compromised.

This book was written primarily for the law enforcement community, but it is equally relevant to those who just want to learn the basics of computer hardware and become more efficient online.

Online Resource Guide for Law Enforcement isn't just for cops-it's for everyone.

While reading Dees' book, I began to feel like Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: "Everything's clear now." For those of us "tweens" who were born in the era of the manual typewriter and have learned to speak "computer," but with a severe accent, this book in invaluable. For years, we've had to listen to the computer pros talking about POPs, DIMMs, ISDNs, ITPs, and FTPs and all we could do is nod our heads in understanding. Dees takes these concepts, and many others, and puts them in a form that is clear, concise and understandable.

Dees walks you through what you need to know: hardware, ISPs, Microsoft Outlook, e-mail, newsgroups, and the worldwide web. While Dees could overwhelm you with lots of technical jargon, he writes in plain English which is understandable and easy to follow. I found myself sitting at my computer and working through many of the steps that Dees discussed. His discussion of online security and protecting yourself was especially useful in these days when privacy is often compromised.

This book was written primarily for the law enforcement community, but it is equally relevant to those who just want to learn the basics of computer hardware and become more efficient online.

Online Resource Guide for Law Enforcement isn't just for cops-it's for everyone.

Miller is an exceptionally blunt, honest, straight-forward writer. I like that in a writer from whom I am seeking business advice. Fanciful stuff is great in science fiction, but this is the real world, the harsh, unforgiving world of business today. I need to be able to trust the writer to relate facts, not fiction, and to do so in a way I can easily understand and quickly apply to my own business plans. I highly recommend this book, and this writer. You can rely on the information to help you move your business forward.

Any fan of Slashdot knows that the site has never embraced the kind of silliness that led some people to fool investors into believing that the road to riches was in selling cheese graters on-line at cheese-graters.com. Part of this reason is Robin Miller, one of the steadiest hands on the tiller. This guy used to drive a limo and that taught him how to manage a real business. Now, he's written down all of the secrets that has kept Slashdot from following cheese-grater.com into Chapter 11.

This is really a practical book that contains none of the new economy mumbo jumbo. Keep your costs low, says Miller, and he suggests a number of ways to use free or very low cost software to accomplish that. If you want to dream of infinite growth, endless revolutions, or shattering paradigms, look somewhere else. It's all about balancing the books and keeping costs in line with revenue.

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.

There's really nothing else like this book. The book is a great value just for the investing/finance/banking side. It's also a great value for just the technology/computer/internet side. I have found this book to be very helpful.

This dictionary contains every investing term imaginable, plus every computer/Internet related term you'll ever need. As an investor, this is ideal. As an individual that doesn't understand all the computer and Internet jargon, this is ideal. With 7,000 terms, this is a great buy.

This binder is great for keeping those printed Guild and Profession Guides WoW members offer for download. Works really well for storing card sheets of WoW trading cards, if don't have very many of them.

This binder has became my best friend. It's the perfect binder for anyone needing Warcraft Trading Card game card storage. Just add a few packs of card holders and all your cards are safely stored and easy to view. Another great use for this is as a guide book for anyone who is in a big guild on the World of Warcraft game. It's suitable for Horde or Allience. Horde artwork covers one side while the other side has Allience artwork. Just flip your binder over to put your faction on front. I am Guild Master of the Knights Who Say Ni on the Quel'Dorei realm. I bought a few of these to make a Guide for a few of my high officers. Add some sheet protectors, print you some maps and quest lists, through in some of those Faq's ("who teaches swords?") and bam... the perfect guild officers companion.

While online education is not for everyone, if you are going to make use of the emerging medium this is the BEST program to use.
It is designed with both the teacher and the students in mind.

For the teacher:
The program is flexable - each teacher may alter the text, grading system, and pace to suit their own needs.
The program tracks grades and keeps all records online.
The program makes communication with each student easy.
For the student:
The material has been designed for the delivery system. The
information is concise and presented in a logical
fashion.
Their are plenty of musical examples to accompany the text.
Thanks to the CD-ROM/Server interface, this music is instantly accesible without time consuming downloading.
Grades and teacher evaluations are constantly accesible.

I have used this program for several years now and I know of
nothing better or even equal to all that it provides.
Inaddition, the staff at I-Cubed has always been extremely helpful. I reccomend their product without reservation.

OnMusic, which must be used in conjunction with an online music appreciation course from a participating institution of higher learning, is a CD-ROM set with libraries of images, music, and movies. These multimedia items are called up by the website at I-Cubed, where the online text of the course is hosted. This combination of local and internet technologies creates a rich multimedia experience without long downloads - a must for today's busy student.

The course, which is fully editable by the instructor, is well put together and covers topics geared to improving the student's music listening skills. Unlike many music appreciation courses, the historical aspect of music only occupies the fourth and final section of the course.

Quizes, interactive exercises, discussion forums, and email interaction can all be conducted online, making this a good distance-learning option.

For schools wanting a better way to reach the music appreciation student, this is worth investigating.