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This book has been an absolute lifesaver. There have been many occasions when it has proved its value as a reference.

I have saved time and money by using this book's practical recommendations to increase performance. It is also the only book that I have seen that attempts to optimize Backoffice apps. Highly recommended!

This definitely has some great tips for making NT scream. I have referred to it several times. The Registry chapter is awesome.

Until now, I haven't been able to find any performance tuning resources that covered both Windows NT and MS BackOffice. This book has already helped me make vast performance improvements. I'm also already beginning to act on the book's recommendations to implement capacity planning procedures for the NT environment.

I was impressed with Gardinier's concise recommendations. This book not only gave me insight on where and when to optimize my NT systems but it also provided me with hard numbers to compare against. I also benefited immensely from the chapters dedicated to optimizing MS BackOffice applications.

A good read. The title is a little misleading, however, because the book also covers wireless without the Web. In other words, peer to peer networks inside buildings, outside buildings, and to the home seem like the most promising aspects of the wireless revolution, as described in this book. As the author states, it's simply a matter of time, not if, wireless will touch every aspect of our lives.

Wireless Web is a refreshing kind of book. I'm tired of books that introuduce a new technology, paint a rosy picture, and then leave the reader dangling three months later. This isn't one of those books. It tells it like it is. Wireless isn't easy. In fact, implementing a Wireless Web solution is nearly at the bleeding edge of what's possible, as the author states. There are traps at every corner, and you'd better know what to expect. In this respect, the Wireless Web provides a map of the "speed bumps" along the way. If you're going to give it a go on the Wireless Web, you'd better have this book or some other roadmap with you.

Having just put down Bergeron's last book, "The Eternal E-Customer", I was interested to see his visionary take on the wireless web. I wasn't disappointed. "The Wireless Web" compellingly captures the multitude of opportunities which the unethering of the Web affords. What I appreciated most about this book (and Bergeron's style as in his previous book) was the practical advice on how any executive can take advantage of these wireless opportunities. Bergeron succinctly explains how a company can embrace this new technology to their competitive advantage. Five stars!

In just a few years the Internet has revolutionized the way we do business. Email, online shopping and digital music downloaded from the Internet are now integral parts of our everyday lives. Technology aware companies have now turned to wireless web for the next big leap in commerce and communication. The race is on for deploying cutting-edge wireless technology.

As a business and technology consultant I am often asked by clients to provide some guidelines on how to proceed in this new and fast moving industry. Is trading stocks using a wireless PDA really a secure transaction and are electronic coupons delivered to customers via cell phones a technical feasible marketing solution? What communications provider should I use when connecting my sales force via WAP based browsers to a wireless CRM solution? And should we look to Europe and Japan for the future in wireless communication, or will it turn out to be another bursting bubble as we have experienced with too many dot.com business ventures?

"The Wireless Web", unlike so many other books covering technology topics, provides an easy to read and well-structured roadmap on how to develop a winning wireless strategy. Bergeron starts off explaining the history of this industry and it's economic drivers and then provides an overview of the current state of technologies, the various systems, protocols and technical standards used in the US and compares them to the more cohesive and further developed Japanese and European technologies. The latter part of the book focuses on the future, introducing the reader to opportunities and potential risks wireless technologies will offer as well as technical and political limitations it will face as this technology matures He closes with a well structured guideline on how to develop a wireless strategy of any scale.

In summary, this book will familiarize the reader with this new and dynamic industry and provide the knowledge required to develop, communicate, and execute a successful wireless strategy. Although written for the non-technical executive, I recommend this book to every one confronted with wireless technologies, the corporate executive implementing a wireless enterprise information portal as well as the cell phone user confronted with evaluating roaming charges, communication protocols and coverage areas when selecting a calling plan. This book definitely deserves a place on the bookshelf of any technologist.

Many people have been impressed by what they have seen of the new wireless services in Europe and Japan. Based on the promise of these offerings, wireless operators have spent billions of dollars for 3G licenses in Europe that will require tens of billions to implement. Based on the amount of money invested and planned for the next few years, it looks like the days of broadband wireless Internet are about to be with us. What should you be doing now? That's the question that this book addresses.

The Wireless Web is the best book I have seen for describing the background of how technology and customer needs are converging to provide new wireless offerings and the potential for new ways to solve problems. About two-thirds of the book is aimed at providing a layperson's description of technology, social, and governmental developments that will influence what will be offered by companies. The remaining third gives you a template for thinking about what these developments mean for your business. For most people now, that decision will relate to when to get involved.

In my consulting practice, it is clear that there are enormous opportunities now to develop intellectual property and new business models that can be implemented immediately. For those who mainly want to use the wireless web as an adjunct to their businesses, on the other hand, you have lots of time.

The best advice in the book is to be sure that you have the business processes in place that will allow you to connect wireless technology to your business when the rest of the infrastructure and equipment are in place.

Basically, wireless Internet connections will become more important as a disruptive technology than the land-wire connected Internet. By always having a device present (whether a cell phone, personal digital assistant, pager, or some new device), individuals will be able to simplify their lives while they are on the go or in any fixed location. As a result, transactions will be transformed. For example, food manufacturers may have to bid for a consumer's business while she or he is walking down the aisles of a supermarket.

For the first time, you will be able to shape the entire consumer or customer experience around what that person prefers. The potential for positive differentiation becomes enormous, as a result.

My main caution to you is that this field is rapidly changing. This information will become out-of-date rapidly. So read the book now if you are going to.

After you have considered some of the ways that the wireless Internet can improve your offerings, I suggest that you go back to the drawing boards to see how much of these changes you can offer now without broadband wireless connections. In this way, the wireless Internet can be a powerful metaphor now for improving your performance.

Be helpful . . . all the time and everywhere!

Book is straight forward. Easy to read/follow. I had created HTML pages in the past. It was easy to migrate to WML. The scripting discussion (WMLScript) was very valuable.

The book presents working programs you will actually use:

Interacting with remote scirpts (Perl, ASP)
Validating forms using WMLScript
Dealing with limited RAM
Error detection and handling

Recommend.

Got me started within my first application in minutes. Book covers WML and WMLScript in detail. Includes some Perl scripts that let you interact with a remote server with your phone. Pretty cool. Would like to see some PHP -- maybe next edition.

I just added this book to my collection of WAP/WML titles.

I was pleased with the amount of code this book provides--probably 200+ WORKING programs. I've been able to make all of them work in the phone simulator and on my phone! That's a nice change.

If you are starting out, the intro chapters will get you up and running. If you have been doing this a while, cutting and pasting the book's code will save you time with things like interacting with Perl.

Recommend.

It's a good start, but it does go very slowly. You need to supplement it with WAP Integration immediately afterward if you want to get into any really advanced aspects of WAP. Experienced developers may even want to jump straight to the WAP Integration book.

For 20 years now, heart disease has killed more women each year than men. Statistically, 40 percent of women will have a cardiovascular problem in her lifetime, and heart disease kills more women than every type of cancer combined. Women have different heart symptoms than men, and yet most of us, including physicians, do not know this.

"It's shocking!" is the first sentence of Mellanie True Hills' A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life. Hills learned the hard way, undergoing a heart attack and a stroke very close together. As she had none of the obvious risk factors (she was young, didn't smoke, had low cholesterol and blood pressure, and was not diabetic), she thought she was safe. What she was, however, was overweight and overstressed, and that in itself is enough.

It also didn't help that it was hard to recognize her heart attack symptoms - shortness of breath, fatigue, mild nausea and heartburn, and a bit of left shoulder and jaw pain. The acronym to remember here is LIFE: Left side pain in shoulder, neck, or jaw, Indigestion, nausea, Fatigue often accompanied by sleeplessness, and Exertion that seems more severe than normal. As it turns out, most women do not experience the crushing chest pains that most male heart attack victims experience. Women have subtle symptoms, but the same deadly outcome.

The HEART plan has five components: Healthy Eating, Exercise Daily, Attitude Toward Stress, Rest, Relaxation, and Rejuvenation, and Take Proactive Control of Your Health. Hills presents checklists, quizzes, and easy to follow and understand programs to help women move forward in all five areas.

Hills' book is very clear, easy to follow, and to the point. It is a quick read, but encourages readers to take the time to really look at their own lives and make positive healthy lifestyle changes. There is good advice on diet, exercise, stress reduction, hormones, and how to recognize a heart attack or stroke when it's happening. Even if you think you are healthy, you should read this book.

A Woman's Guide To Saving Her Own Life by Mellanie True Hills is one EVERY woman must read and take "to heart." It is Mellanie's story of nearly dying of heart disease. Few women realize that in the United States one woman dies every minute of heart disease, 10 times as many as die of breast cancer and 5 times as many as from all cancers! Heart disease and stroke are responsible for 40% of women's deaths, even young women and those who don't smoke and are without history of high cholesterol or high blood pressure. Heart disease kills more women than men, and yet we don't hear about it. This book details the warning signs and has excellent instructions for changing our lifestyles to prevent heart disease. This is a MUST for all women and men who love them

The price tag is hefty for a standard-sized 8.5x11 paperback workbook, but any concerned about women's health and heart disease must take a look. It identifies the different risk factors and symptoms involved in women's heart health, packs in tips on how to lose weight (tested tips: the author lost 85 pounds with these secrets), and reveals how to get the tests and treatments unique to the female body. Charts and case histories appear in boxed, easily-noted pages of detail which succeed in breaking up test and enhancing visuals. A 'must' for any woman concerned about heart health.

Diane C. Donovan, Editor
California Bookwatch

Reviewed by Beverly Pechin for Reader Views (4/06)

Coming from a family with a long history of heart disease you'd think I'd jump at the chance to read something that can help me. I wasn't all that thrilled. I kept telling myself, oh come on, I'm fine. Heart like a mule. I'm not really at risk. Who cares that family history, being overweight and not eating properly are my biggest factors... I can ignore them. But can I?

Reading this book truly could save your life. I'm one to ignore the bad things in life. I figure if I don't acknowledge it, it goes away. Unfortunately that's not true. I've learned that through many trials and tribulations. This book enhances the fact.

Mellanie is a heart surgery survivor. What makes her story somewhat different is that she's not a 'typical' heart disease candidate. She had hidden risks, which many of us can have and probably do have along with a few obvious factors that she ignored. This book will walk with you, step by step and show you what you can do, what to look for and how to prevent being like Mellanie - an emergency heart surgery patient.

Heart disease actually kills more women then men, yet all the most books and media stress heart disease in men. Mellanie is on the forefront of changing this, thankfully. Nearly 1,400 women die every day from heart disease. That's 10 times more than breast cancer and 5 times more than all cancers combined. Yet we still remain oblivious for the most part. We have rallies and walks for breast cancer. How many times have you seen the pink ribbons out there for various fundraisers? What have you seen for Women's Heart Disease? Can you even say what the "promotional gimmick" is for women's heart disease? My guess is no. In case you wonder, it's a red dress.

The book begins by sharing Mellanie's story. It's fairly frightening to read as she's not a typical candidate and if you were to think long and hard many of us are typical candidates. If SHE could have this happen, what are OUR chances as high risk? If SHE could have this happen, what are our chances even as low risk? Are you truly low risk? Her book helps you find out.

She breaks the book up in sections - Sharing risk factors, stories of heart disease and most of all a wonderful area to begin your plan to change your lifestyle and risk factor. The book is made as a workbook. Take the time to write down your thoughts, ideas and most of all your goals. Mellanie encourages a proactive approach. She doesn't try to scare you into suddenly changing. Jumping off the bridge quickly only leads to landing hard. Instead she gives you a realistic approach to take daily. She doesn't want to scare you into changing; she wants to show you the benefits.

I really would highly recommend this book to every woman out there. It's not something we tend to think about, talk about or even read about. Change that. Make the changes Mellanie gives you and take that proactive approach to NOT becoming a statistic. It's well worth the price to save your life. When you put the cards on the table, there's a choice that can be made and you can make it. Have the chance of dying before your time or take the road to freedom and change your life for you and your family. You are worth it and I'm certain your family would agree.

Forty percent of women die of heart disease and stroke--more than ten times the number of women who die from breast cancer--according to Mellanie True Hills in her book, A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life: The HEART Program for Health and Longevity. These and other little-known facts about the causes and effects of heart disease in women make this guide a must-read for women of all ages.

A heart survivor herself, Hills tells her own story and uses an informal woman-to-woman style to educate women about heart health. Her book offers easy-to-follow advice on nutrition, exercise, stress, sleep, and identifying the symptoms of heart disease in women. The guide also includes a step-by-step workbook for building a customized plan for heart disease prevention.

Mellanie True Hills is the Founder and CEO of the American Foundation for Women's Health. She provides lifestyle coaching and speaks extensively to spread awareness of heart disease and prevention.

Armchair Interviews says: Life-saving information every woman should know.

Your Unforgettable Life isn't something you can read in one sitting because it requires you to stop and reflect on your own life, but when you're done, you'll walk away with a better understanding of what's truly important to you and you'll have a road map to get you there.

Schuchmann and Chapin have written an important book. The basic premise is that life should be lived deliberately, keeping in mind that the choices we make will have an impact on generations to come. Regardless of the legacy left to us, we can and must choose the legacy we leave to our children and to our world. I recommend "Your Unforgettable Life" as a good book-an important book. It could affect your life "to infinity, and beyond."

Don't all of us feel we want our lives to count? to make an impact? to be remembered? What if we deliberately chose how we want people to remember us for the next three or four generations? Your Unforgettable Life offers extremely helpful insights on how to make our lives matter now-and in the future.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I've heard bits and pieces of some of the examples the authors use, but this book captures so many great perspectives in one volume. It's a book I'll be going back to again and again as I work to leave the legacy that I envision.

This book really made me think. I tend to get caught up in the big things in my life, and I want to leave a lasting impression on people. But the authors of this book made me take a look a look at all the small opportunities I have every day to leave a legacy-to make a difference in people's lives.

I tend to think that only famous people, or very important people, have legacies to leave. But we all do. Our days are filled with minutes and plenty of opportunities to make deliberate choices. Regardless of how wealthy we are, we all have the same number of minutes in any given day.

The authors reminded me that God cares about the smallest of details-the birds of the air and the hairs on my head. They helped me think about my priorities versus where I spend my time and how they often don't line up. They also helped me think about stewardship-that the money I've earned really came from God, and I have a great deal of responsibility on how it will be used. If I remember who really owns the money, then my choices and legacy will better follow God's desires for my life.

The book also helps in practical areas, such as developing integrity, taking risks, remaining loyal, and choosing our words carefully. Even a few words have incredible power to do harm or encourage someone.

Ms Schuchman and Mr. Chapin have done a great job of reminding me to put my focus on God and let my actions follow my love for Him. Through that, I can leave a legacy to my family and friends that can last, as God said, a thousand generations. The authors have encouraged me. They are not bombastic, but with humility and without judgment have made me think hard about my choices. I strongly recommend this easy read to anyone who is interested in what legacy they will leave behind.

An excellent source of information regarding trading fundamentals in global markets, especially for beginning FOREX traders. The information provided in the text enables the reader to grasp the main subjects of investment and world trade in a simplified manner. The only short coming is that the information regarding global economic statistics is dated to pre-1997 and it would be great if the authors provided an updated edition

Brian Quinlan, son of Joeseph P. Quinlan, is a funny boy who gives interesting speeches and has the best basement and television set in the world. We like to call him TW for terrific warrior. He is a big fan of Doug Flutie and Zack Debolt and you should beware of the "elbow".

I can't tell you how many times I have referred to this book for my investment descisions. It's an accurate and clear portrayal of what goes on in the global market. My returns are increasing more and more everyday!

The Export Institute deals with brand new to highly experienced international traders. Many of them already know that the old adage "follow the money" is especially true in foreign commerce. Smart exporters are continually monitoring the activities of global investors and financial institutions.

This book will open your mind to various aspects of the global economy. Any serious investor would be doing him/herself a great favor by picking up this book...it is written in a very organized manner wherein coverage of each topic is short, concise, and each has it's own accompanying graphs/charts/statistics page. A perfect reference.

The 7 Universal laws is easy reading which is good because you will want to refer to it constantly. The ideas presented are the kind which make you wonder why you hadn't seen it so clearly before. Simply useful.

this book is very simple, and interesting. this book for evey one working with people. you will learn

This book is almost as excellent as Steve's first book "How May I Help You". It has great ideas about most any buissness situation

Even better than the first of Mr. Broydrick's two book; How May I Help You, this book truly sheads light to buisness. The best buisness book ever

A lucid, light read that offers powerful insights. This book is a must for the business or marketing person's reference library. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

I have always been interested in culture and human aspects of the firm. This book was highly recommended by my teacher on strategic management as his favorite on change management. It's an easy read on the human aspects of change and is helped by a novel structure in the book (each subsection of the chapter reads like an individual chapter, which assists the dropping and picking up). It's no nonsense. Anyone who liked 'The Fifth Discipline', will much appreciate this as well. I hope to read more of this type material.

I have always been interested in culture and human aspects of the firm. This book was highly recommended by my teacher on strategic management as his favorite on change management. It's an easy read on the human aspects of change and is helped by a novel structure in the book (each subsection of the chapter reads like an individual chapter, which assists the dropping and picking up). It's no nonsense. Anyone who liked 'The Fifth Discipline', will much appreciate this as well. I hope to read more of this type material.

very updated, helpful in managing change in big organizations

If the Business environment is as smart as it should be this book should be a Best-Selle

The Accelerating Organization is an excellent resource of ideas on how to develop a constantly learning organization. Maira and Scott-Morgan provide many clear and concise concepts in developing a new organization or moving an existing organization into a learning system. Every point is illustrated from a plethora of international business situations. Not only is "The Accelerating Organization" informative, it is "do-able."

"REVOLUCION TOTAL: ADIOS A LAS DIETAS !" Este fue el libro de recetas que utilicé para bajar a mi peso ideal sin desnutrirme.
Realmente, lo encontré ESPLÉNDIDO !

porque no te desnutre:
TE ALIMENTA DE UNA MANERA BALANCEADA y te baja de peso...
Incluso se la doy confiadamente a mi hija de 14 años!

because you really get your weight down without living in hunger or feeling weak !
A GOOD NUTRITION BOOK !

It has all you need except for the will of doing them...and they are not killers: Except of OVERWEIGHT !

A lo largo de los dos últimos años, he comprado casi todod los libros que se publican en español. Necesitaba bajar de peso, pero ninguna dieta de esos libros me acomodaba... Un día, mi compadre Sergio me regaló este librito. Ya sin mucha esperanza, lo recisé y decidí seguir sus consejos: Son buenísimos, porque el libro se divide en dos partes, cada una de ellas con una dieta: Una de calorías, la otra de carbohidratos ! De modo que cuando uno se fastidia de la primera, pasa a la segunda y de esta manera se recuperan todos los nutrientes que solemos perder cuando nos podemos a dieta. Quiero decirles, que en UN MES BAJÉ NUEVE KILOS !!!! ¡¿Y ME CREERÍAN QUE FUE SIN SACRIFICIO? Se los recomiendo muy especialmente, amigos... Ahora, mi esposa está siguiendo estas dos dietas, y lleva tres kilos EN UNA SEMANA!!! ¡Y saben lo increíble? ME HE SOSTENIDO Cinco meses con mi peso ideal...

A newly married couple set off to follow the trail of Marco Polo. Along the way they visit places described by Marco Polo, as well as places Marco Polo never got to, such as the Hunza Valley.
In lands of foreign languages, the Shors encounter a variety of people from kings, queens and Shahs, to
villagers, guides and yak pullers.
After meeting in China where they both worked and lived, Jean Bowie and Franc Shor were married, although Jean wouldn't have know otherwise as the service was in Chinese. The Shors, both seasoned travelers, soon are honeymooning across parts of China. While on their honeymoon Jean, an ardent follower of Marco Polo, is reminded of his explorations.
After Franc is willing to make the trek, the couple start leaping the hurdles. They overcome numerous obstacles, impossible with todays traveling systems and security. While preparing to leave and traveling through Europe, Franc adopted a necessary maxim, " After we leave here we won't get anything good to eat." This he would recite anytime they both dined at a restaurant with appealing delicacies. " He says it in New York before we leave for Paris, and in Paris before Rome, and in Rome before Cairo." Mrs. Shor says, " The grass is always dead on the other side of the street."
After all preparations are finished, so they think, the Shors set off on an eight month exploration through the Middle East, following Marco Polo's footsteps and just like him, trying to make it to China.

I'd recommend this book for children or at least middle school. Written about tracing the steps of Marco Polo, the best part was the end where they slide with their yaks into the valley of the Hunzas in Northern Pakistan. The Hunzas are people who love in a mountain suntrap, with no written language, lots of apricot oil and no cancer. Fascinating. I'm sorry the authoress didn't write more books.

Just after WW II when the world's inhabitants were still resting from their efforts and the Chinese Civil War was in a lull and westerners, especially Americans were welcome almost anywhere, a couple set out to see the remote areas of High Asia where few westerners had ever gone. They managed to travel in a time of relative safety compared with now.
I remember the days of hippies in the sixties riding local buses across Turkey, Iran snd Afghanistan on their way from Europe to Nepal. And the rivalry between the US and USSR for influence with the Afghan government and people. We and the USSR were competing with aid projects including modern mapping, road building, dams and other infrstrucure projects. There were even guidebooks detailing routes to and ancient monuments at Herat, Balkh, Kandahar, and elsewhere.
Whst makes these remarka relevent today was the relative safety of travel on the besten paths in the fifties and sixties.Then the world's interest in the "Roof of Asia" was inspired by the msny articles in the National Geographic in the forties and fifties. I followed the adventures of Franc and Jean and was saddened by their subsequent splittng up. I had even hoped to go there some day, especially to Tibet, but by the time I graduated from university, the Chinese Reds had long since closed the area east of the Wakhan to westerners. I had eagerly read Lowell Thomas's Tibet articles in the SEP as well.
I first read those articles in "real time" as a young lad in the forties and have retained an interest in the area ever since. I was never fortunate enough to travel to high Asia on mapping expeditions when the Army Map Service was working in Iran. I came to work at AMS too late to go to the field. In a few years oue field men had either been expelled or finished the work in most of the countries involved.
This book is not a scientific study but an impressionistic account of one couple's journey during a window of opportunity which will never come again, at least in the relative safety of the late forties.
The book is based on the articles that originally appeared in the Geographic magazine.

Wonderful travel book about a very volatile part of the world. Franc and Jean Schor travel through China after WWII on their honeymoon when Jean gets the idea to follow the route of Marco Polo after reading his account. After much planning with the National Geographic and cajoling of governments to issue the necessary visas they embark on an adventurous trip through much of South West Asia.

The more interesting accounts are of their meeting and befriending the Shah of Iran. They come to spend quite some time with him and his family. He even flies them himself in his converted B-17 over the "hot Desert" of Iran. They come away seeing the Shah as an enlightened leader who will modernize the country. Just to show you what a small world it is they meet Chief Justice William O'Douglas, at a dinner party in Iran. He seems to have spent allot of his spare time exploring in that part of the world as a hobby. At the dinner party he says, "I would much rather set precedent than follow precedent." In Afghanistan they get to meet King Mohammed Zahir, (who is 93 and presently in exile in Italy), by using a letter of introduction given them from the Shah of Iran. King Zahir grants them permission to travel through the Wakhan corridor, a very dangerous desolate area bordering China. They are the first "westerners" to travel this part of Afghanistan and write about it since the 19th century. The descriptions of abject poverty and their dealings with "duplicitous" Afghans still rings true today by all accounts we see in the news.

This is an enjoyable book describing the people and treacherous terrain of South West Asia. Franc and Jean Schor become intrepid world travelers who did many stories for National Geographic. As a retired Army officer and student of political philosophy I reccomend the book highly.

Written by a woman who was not a professional explorer, but rather an individual with a keen sense of adventure, and history. A modest and beautifully written work that flows so easily that it can be enjoyed in just a few sittings. It takes place in the period just after WWII before the world was over-run with cell phones, satellite photos and email. A true aventure from a simpler time...