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This book conveys information technology aspects in a serious maner. How the information technology relates to business is elucidated very well. Case studies are provided at the end of each chapter and are applicable to real-life problems.

At the end of each chapter are discussion questions to help review important points presented in the chapter.

Answers to the chapter cases and the questions can be acquired from the publishing company.

I appreciate this book since it has taught me how business and information technology depend on each other to produce a profitable company. This book presents information technology aspects in a clear and concise manner, as compared to other IT books that delve into lingo and the like.

Unlike many books, written on today's technology issues, Jim approaches this topic from the business perspective. This top-down approach allows one to understand how a set of technologies maps to the business drivers. This books looks at business impact from a business management perspective. Moreover, this book covers a range of topics that allow the reader to understand the complexity, and interrelationships, of today's distributed internetworking environment.

The reader will be exposed to layered architectures - understanding how they interrelate, yet remain separate. The topics range from an overview of Data Communications - including voice, through local area networking - protocols and OSs, WANs, internetworking and remote access. The book closes with coverage of the network development life cycle, network management and security.

What sets this book apart from many is the way Jim approaches technology solutions based upon business drivers and criteria. Technology, in and of itself, does not enhance a business' ability to deliver value. However, when one approaches technology solutions, or innovation, based upon business criteria they are more likely to add value to the bottom line. Jim encapsulates the concept of value added technology solutions in his presentation of data communications. This book is well written, concise, and understandable - a must read for individuals focused on technology and business!

Tim Martin VP Implementation Engineering Zama Networks Inc.

If you're planning to cruise Arizona looking for ghost towns, this book will be a great help. I used it recently on a trip to Arizona and found it to be an invaluable guide. Basic history is provided for each entry, along with directions and road conditions. The photography is great as well. The book is interesting even if you never get a chance to visit these forgotten places.

The information and directions included in this book are very informative, but not in a lot of depth. Photos were fantastic. Buy it with another book whose emphasis is Arizona history with more specific directions and it will be a winning combination.

This is a really terrific collection. In this book are many of the little-known sketches and paintings of the late, great physicist/folk hero Richard P. Feynman. I sought this book out after reading Ralph Leighton's Feynman biography "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" I'm glad I went to the trouble to do so.

The book commences with a foreword by Albert Hibbs, whom many Feynman fans will recognize as Feynman's friend and co-author of "Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals." Don't skip over this foreword. Hibbs has a lot of interesting things to say about how visual Feynman was in all his projects, including his style of doing physics.

After the foreword is a helpful preface by Feynman's daughter Michelle. (Michelle works as a photographer, and was the primary person in charge of selecting these artworks). She describes some interesting features of Feynman family life, such as the fact that many of the models for these paintings became lifelong Feynman family friends. She gives us a fun little window into the experience of "growing up Feynman."

This book also contains Feyman's wry, interesting essay "But is it Art?" from "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!," as well as a selection of biographical sketches from four of Fenman's friends, including three artists and his biographer.

The actual sketches are really pretty good, in my humble opinion. There are about a hundred pages of black and white sketches, including charcoal, pencil, and ink wash drawings. Many are quite simple and direct. Others clearly took quite a bit of time.

Let me give you a friendly warning here, incidentally. Leafing through this section, you will go through page after page of sketches of young, beautiful women, in a variety of attractive poses. This will lead you to a pleasant, happy, blissed out frame of mind. Suddenly, with absolutely no warning whatsoever, you will turn the page and be confronted by the dilapidated, craggy, wrinkled face of an anonymous, elderly male physics professor, frowning under a ponderously furrowed unibrow, glaring out of the book at you. Be warned, O reader, and try not to have a seizure. Also included among these sketches are occasional other topics, such as Feyman's dog Rufus, and a few "one minute line drawings" (a common exercise in art classes)... Personally, I think Figure 87 is pretty neat. It includes small sketches of various subjects -- a woman, faces, a plant, a sleeping dog, and more. But there's more -- the background is full of Feynman's equations! They wind all over the place, throughout the drawing. It makes for kind of a neat juxtaposition. I could definitely see that sketch making a great poster.

After the black and white sketches are a small collection of color paintings, including a sketch of a little town, and Feynman's trusty dog Rufus.

Basically, if you are a Feynman fan, this book will go a long way toward rounding out your appreciation of him. Besides, there are some really terrific pictures in here. Two thumbs up!

The amazing thing about great minds is just how many subjects they encompass. Feynman is known as a physicist and occasional drummer, but he was a fair amateur artist, too.

These drawings and paintings show how quickly he progressed, once he decided to learn drawing. I suppose it gave him yet another way to enjoy the female form, and yet another reason to habituate "gentlemen's clubs." He had other motivations, too, as shown by some very sensitive drawings of his friends and children.

This isn't great art. It is, however, very competent amateur work. Most of all, it's another view, from an unexpected angle, of one of the great minds of our time.

//wiredweird

This book covers the complete evolution and development of tracking from the first hunter-gathers to today's hunter-trackers. In his explanations and discussion of tracking Mr. Liebenberg touches on and covers a wide range and field of topics; botany, zoology, anthropology, paleontology, and archaeology to name but a few areas. He explains his theories that the art of tracking may present a crucial step in the transition of early man to modern man. His work is not only backed up by his years of tracking and research but also by his many years of studying and living with primitive tribes; like the Kalahari hunters. I found this book to be the definitive text on tracking; this book puts all the other works of tracking into perspective and provides added insight to this science. The book in its presentation is geared toward the Africa but as we know as trackers the fundamentals and principles are the same were ever you are. So weather you are naturalist, search&rescue, law enforcement or a military tracker, the information presented in this text will enhance your overall knowledge of tracking; man or beast. If this book goes out of print do your self a favor and track down a used copy, it will be well worth your time and effort, because that is what I did. But luckly it is back in PRINT!! HHOOOOAAAHHH!!!

I provided a copy of the contents:

Introduction-- Part I: The Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence-- 1. Hominid Evolution, 2. The Evolution of Hominid Subsistence, 3. The Evolution of Tracking, 4. The Origin of Science and Art-- Part II: Hunter-Gatherers of the Kalahari-- 1. Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence, 2. Science Knowledge of Spoor and Animal Behavior, 3. Non-scientific Aspects of Hunting-- Part III: The Fundamentals of Tracking-- 1. Principles of Tracking, 2. Classification of signs, 3. Spoor Interpretation, 4. Scientific Research Programmers-- References-- Index.

Hi Readers, The Art of Tracking is now back in print. regards, Louis Liebenberg

I bought this cook book years ago for my first husband and he loved it. I loved the results of what he made. This year my son got married and his lovely new wife loves to cook so I found a copy of this for her for her birthday and she loves it too. Even though I don't much like to cook, I'm tempted to get one of my own since I lost the first one in the divorce decree. :o)

This is a great book. I'll be the second to admit, after my hubby, that I'm a lousy cook. But I have used this book with great results! Not to mention that the author is just plain funny. If you like baked beans, cole slaw, potato salad, brownies and other typical picnic food, this is a great place to look for a new twist that works. It includes about 12 different recipes for each of the featured foods.

I picked this book up in the library probably because of its alluring cover image and title, I'll admit it. And I was prepared to even enjoy what I thought was coming: an intellectual travel book of the Paul Theroux ilk, with perhaps the added sarcasm and chip on the shoulder due any returing British colonial.

It was, however, immediately more interesting and engrossing than any of those books Mr. Theroux has written, and it had even more honesty than Maya Angelou's book about coming to Africa, "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes." For a long time I was not sure if it was meant to be novel or not. It was acertainly a novel idea, to make such trips, one after the other, in the time that one would need to see the places one was visiting (although I get the feeling that he might have strayed further afield in Africa than he did. There is an element of depression at times that was perhaps strongest in Africa, that kept some of his questions from being asked, so that he decided to move on and end any meandering reflection.) He was always interested in takling to people of the places he visited, but not to justify or romanticize about some book-learned image of the place. He aims more to appreciate what the possibilities of the places he visits are now, and then more importantly, what people there feel their history to be.

It is almost as if he goes to visit a relative in each place, (although he never does this) and in the process was not recognised as a visitor or tourist (was not recognised as anything, perhaps, something that helped lend the novel air to the book, and an interesting element of his reflection. I guess it is based upon the narrator's (and author's, I suppose) African heritage, colonial experience, and English mother tongue, despite his never having lived in America, Britain, or Africa.)

I recomend this book as history and even as a novel. I Guess it is a new sort of book for this age, frank and real and yet also curiously fictitious. It is hard to put down. I look forward to reading it again.

This is a remarkably complex and thought-provoking book.
It would be of interest to anyone who thinks about:
slavery/the middle passage, the limits (or failures) of Pan-Africanism, the power of the 'Exodus' myth in the Bible, and finally the invisible histories of urban space (i.e., of cities like Liverpool, UK and Charleston, SC).

The different destinations in the book -- Ghana, Liverpool, Charleston, even Israel -- all have some bearing to the middle passage. The argument of this book, if there is an argument, seems to be that the journeys "homeward" that many people of African descent invent for themselves are all in some way symptomatic of the original event of separation, the forcible departure constituted by captivity and the journey to the new world.

Amardeep Singh

If you're looking for something humorous, but nothing off-color, this is the book.

This thoroughly clean collection of humor made me giggle 'til I wiggled and snicker 'til snot shot out. I truly love this book and make it a point to flip through it whenever I sit down on the throne of gross (I keep it in my unheavenly bathroom, dip-pickle!).

The alphabetized humor is easy to reference and good to use on an audience of one or one hundred or ... on nun.

Two thumbs up and clapping happily!

Harvey from Lima

Being an aviation and enthusiast, whilst going to a local antique shop (in Orange CO. CA); I happened across two very old publications. One was the first publication of this book: "The Red Knight of Germany" 1927(hardcover) and the other was "Warbirds: Diary of an unknown aviator" 1926/1951 (paperback).

The former is a vintage first edition book of the era with thick paper pages and old style cover and binding. I had read a book previously called "The Red Baron: Richtoffen's Autobiography", but this book was equally as good as it was written from the perspective of 10 years after his death. The accounts of all 80 victories are fresh and has references to those that survived and even where they lived. Just touching a book this old and close to the events, takes one back in time. Few books have been able to do this to me. So by having "The Red Knight" and the other more recent book compiling his autobiography, one gets to know Manfred's life inside and out. I also strongly recommend the recent CDROM movie that investigates how he was killed. What one takes away from that is that it was his destiny to die much in the same way his victims did, but with the irony that he broke his own rule about going over the enemy lines. The best aces on both sides of the conflict died. Chances are the Red Baron died from a ground AAA Lewis machine gun, with exactly one bullet through his body and then crash landed. Irony at its epitomy. To qoute his last dying words as witnessed by the soldier that pulled him out: "I am kaput". Yet he lives on in the annals of military history, probably even more so in that he died young,in combat and at the top of _his_ game.

The Red Knight of Germany: The Story of Baron von Richthofen Floyd Gibbons, 1927.

To begin, I can honestly classify this title as simply an excellent read. Gibbons succeeds in giving a full recollection of the occurances during the life of Richthofen, and the respect the author had for Richthofen is apparent throughout the book. It is written with the same views that I believe the pilots of the time would have had pertaining to aerial warfare, or flight alone. The romantic aspects of flight, which were held in higer regard in the times of elegant, open cockpits and gallant pilots than it is today, the book unfolds in a more-than-satisfying manner the events leading up to, and including, Richthofen's time as an aerial fighter. The book includes excerpts from Richthofen's own accounts of the war, through letters to his mother, the official requests for acknowledgement for many of the victories he attained, and quotes. Certainly the book is worthy of much more praise than I am able to give in a short review such as this. For anyone even remotely interested in the early days of Aerial warfare, and of course of special interest to those interested in the history of Germany's Ace of Aces.

Miami Phillips has written an important book that looks beneath the surface, giving the reader insights and practical advice. For anyone wanting to be, to do and to have, Miami does an excellent job explaining the hidden motivators in your life and how you can use that insight to your advantage.

Richard Reardon
R&R Business Development
author of "The Business development Guide"

Miami Phillip's insightful mind and clear understanding illuminate our failure to distinguish between dohavebe and bedohave. His book is a rare combination of intellectual and moral integrity.

I can't be without my Bentley Guide! I am a consultant and I bring it to every show to show my customers how much their investment in Longaberger baskets will grow over the years! It also has allowed me to see older baskets that I wanted and was able to track down on Ebay! LOVE IT!!

This book is absolutely wonderful. It has very nice pictures of the baskets and is very helpful when you are just starting to collect baskets. My only gripe is there are a FEW (a SMALL few) they do not have pictures of. It is a wonderful tool for anyone who loves Longaberger. Very helpful for ebay, etc.