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Asunder: An Unauthorized History of the Origins of Java Programming Language
Richard Stiller , Jos Marlowe , and Richard J. Stiller Manufacturer: Briarwood Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1892614022 |
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Let's get real here........2002-09-07
This is the handbook for life in a software incubator.......2001-06-10
Read This Book........2001-05-02
A page turner.......2000-10-30
This appears to be a book that either you believe it and love it, or you disbelieve and hate it. I believe it. I too have known managers of the type Richard describes and have witnessed corporate antibodies reject breakthrough ideas. Like the Java development, the development of a new computer being described in "The Soul of a New Machine" required an unauthorized, underground movement by dedicated engineers to avoid rejection by the official coporate antibodies. The unorthodox method that Richard used to overcome these problems and save Java was fasinating, but not likely to be widely adopted. It requires too much self effacement for almost anyone capable and self confident enough to carry it off, and in the end the powers that be do not know your role in the success. Thus, there is no profit nor reward in it except self satisfaction. This is definitely not a primer for ambitious coporate ladder climbers.
Lawrence..again?.......2000-06-08
I wonder if Microsoft (now on the verge of being split) understands that one of the seeds of their impending division, had to do with Rich and Joss and their decision to save an obscure technology from cancellation. Of course short sighted people will hate this book. That's why they are short sighted.
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Accounting & Finance for Integrated Media Publishing Companies
Manufacturer: PRIMEDIA Business ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0918110203 Release Date: 2002-08-30 |
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The best book available on this intricate subject........1998-08-24
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Developing Key Privacy Rights: The Impact of the Human Rights Act of 1998 (Justice (Hart))
Jonathan Cooper , and Anne Owers Manufacturer: Hart Publishing (UK) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1841131687 |
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With the incorporation into domestic law of the European Convention on Human Rights, the UK courts will increasingly be called upon to strike the balance between the potentially conflicting rights of the right to privacy under Article 8 and the right to freedom of expression under Article 10. This book looks at the legal and constitutional development of both these rights and the relationship between them in several other countries: France, Germany, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and before the European Court of Human Rights. With a particular focus on cases concerning the media, it is an important source for all those interested in the development of these areas of law under the Human Rights Act.
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It was in him: The George Morris story
Dick DeRyk Manufacturer: Printers Features ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0969523602 |
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An Annotated Catalogue of the Illustrations of Human and Animal Expression from the Collection of Charles Darwin: An Early Case of the Use of Photography in Scientific Research
Phillip Prodger Manufacturer: Edwin Mellen Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0773484671 |
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Time Series Analysis and Applications to Geophysical Systems (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0387223118 |
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Time series methods are essential tools in the analysis of many geophysical systems. This volume, which consists of papers presented by a select, international group of statistical and geophysical experts at a Workshop on Time Series Analysis and Applications to Geophysical Systems at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota from November 12-15, 2001 as part of the IMA's Thematic Year on Mathematics in the Geosciences, explores the application of recent advances in time series methodology to a host of important problems ranging from climate change to seismology.
The works in the volume deal with theoretical and methodological issues as well as real geophysical applications, and are written with both statistical and geophysical audiences in mind. Important contributions to time series modeling, estimation, prediction, and deconvolution are presented. The results are applied to a wide range of geophysical applications including the investigation and prediction of climatic variations, the interpretation of seismic signals, the estimation of flooding risk, the description of permeability in Chinese oil fields, and the modeling of NOx decomposition from thermal power plants.
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Linear Collider Physics In The New Millennium (Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics)
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9812389083 |
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The Ivy Chronicles
Karen Quinn Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: B000FKP9Y2 |
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Karen Quinn's The Ivy Chronicles is the amusing story of what happens when a New Yorker loses her job, her husband, and her ritzy Park Avenue pad and is forced to carve out a new niche for herself and her two private school-educated daughters. After transferring the girls to public school and renting a shabby-chic (at best) flat upstairs from a knicherie, Ivy Ames takes her billionaire friend Faith's advice and starts a consulting business to help privileged pre-schoolers get into the city's premier kindergartens. Light on substance yet heavy on laughs, Quinn does a reasonably successful job of following in the well-heeled footsteps of earlier gossip lit standouts such as The Nanny Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada.While Ivy's moral quandaries (is it really wrong to accept an alligator-skin Prada in exchange for securing a child's placement at a top "Baby Ivy") and often raunchy romances form the basis for this exposé, it is the toddlers' family stories that get the most laughs along the way. From Maria Kutcher, whose mob boss father is often referred to as "Kutcher the Butcher" to Winnie Weiner, a "nice Jewish girl from the Upper West Side" who becomes the African-American WaShaunte Washington in order to snag a "diversity" spot at the top schools, Quinn spares no one when it comes to exposing the habits of the rich and almost-famous. Yet even as Ivy begins to see the error of her snobbish ways, Quinn never quite lets her off the hook completely ("...it was such a relief to have a powerful man to lean on. Why couldn't I have one of my very own? Why?"). Still, for those of us who are in need of a quick laugh and have a few hours to spare, The Ivy Chronicles promises to entertain and amuse. --Gisele Toueg
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When turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds she's been downsized from her high-powered corporate job and her marriage, she swiftly realizes that she's going to need a whole new way to support herself and her two private-school daughters. At first she does the obvious thing: she panics. Then she decides to put her years of marketing savvy to work and dreams up a brilliant new business - helping upscale New Yorkers get their little darlings into the most exclusive kindergartens in the city. Ivy enters a parent-eat-parent world where the egos are directly proportional to their owners' enormous incomes, peopled by her only-in-Manhattan clients, including:
- Lilith Radmore-Stein, a newspaper mogul who is willing risk her entire empire in a demented effort to get her son admitted to Harvard Day
- Omar Kutcher (Kutcher the Butcher), a cold-blooded mob boss who seeks Ivy's counsel on whether to bump off or pay off the powers-that-be to get his little pistol into the city's best all-girls Catholic school
- Stu Needleman, Ivy's most obnoxious client, who threatens to ruin her if she won't help his four-year-old unibrowed daughter cheat on her kindergarten entrance exam
- Willow Bliss and Tiny Herrera, the biracial lesbian parents of an adopted wheelchair-bound black child who is the triple crown of diversity that every school will covet
From the backstabbers of corporate America to the leading toddlers of Fifth Avenue, The Ivy Chronicles is more than an insider's look at this elite and utterly preposterous universe. It is also a tale of midlife reinvention and unexpected romance - for anyone who has ever lost what she holds dear and had to start over again.
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Best character was Faith.......2007-08-27
Hysterical! Good soul food for Moms who worry about worrying!.......2007-05-22
This is really, really bad.......2007-05-03
Do NOT waste your time like I did. . ........2007-04-07
Entertaining but empty........2007-03-24
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Always a Blessing in the End: The Chronicles of the Four Ancestral Lineages of Ben Ivy & Ruth Thompson
Paulette Ivy Harris Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Accessories:
ASIN: 0595348866 |
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Always a Blessing in the End is a two-fold exploration of the African American experience in the United States within the genre of a family history. After addressing the development of the African slave trade, it highlights the attitudes and accomplishments in the arenas of slavery and equality for black Americans during each presidential administration from Washington to Carter. Paulette Ivy Harris then presents her genealogies of four lineages, namely the Ivys, the Baileys, Goldsons, and the Thompsons. She takes the reader on an empathetic sojourn through the lives of the ancestors she finds long buried in Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Missouri. Her ancestors seem to resurrect from the dust of their internment and take on flesh to live again between the pages. By incorporating genealogical details about her ancestors into her research of African American history, she reconstructs the lives they endured. She discovers that the Christian faith of her ancestors was unfailingly rewarded with what truly mattered. Those who enjoy reading family histories will learn about the struggles of several generations. Beginners and seasoned family history sleuths will be able to glean sources from Always a Blessing in the End to help them with their own ancestry puzzle.
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Eventful living,: The intimate chronicle of a successful life in the happy pursuit of the virtues of the American way
John Ivy Stafford Manufacturer: William-Frederick Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007HNYYA |
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The Search For Indoor Comfort: A History Of Heating And Cooling
Jason Edwards Manufacturer: Acovianbooks ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1881917223 |
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When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King
Robert S. Robins , and Jerrold Post Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0300063148 |
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Illness and instability in high office has often shaped the course of world events. Drawing on examples from around the world and throughout history-including George III, Winston Churchill, Adolph Hitler, Idi Amin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Menachem Begin, Deng Xiao-peng, and Ronald Reagan-this important and absorbing book reveals how mortal illness can affect decisions and make a leader more determined to leave his mark on history.
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When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King
Jerrold M. Post Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OS5GCA |
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The Panda's Thumb
Stephen Jay Gould Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0393013804 |
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In Memorium.......2006-11-07
Muddled thinking ... If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly........2005-11-14
Two Panda's Thumbs up!!.......2005-09-18
Evolutionary theory meets Mickey Mouse and selfish genes.......2002-12-19
One of the essays here dealt with Richard Dawkins' controversial stand (in The Selfish Gene) on genes in which he states that a person is just a gene's way to make another gene. (This is different from normal evolutionary thought in that genes there are the subject of random variation which then is subject to the environment and tested.) Gould is not convinced by Dawkins' theory, mainly because, he says, there is no evidence that genes can be linked to specific attributes, i.e., there isn't an "eye" gene. Gould wrote this some years back, so it will be interesting to see if he revisits this subject now that researchers have indeed discovered the "eye" gene (through testing on flies).
Gould also covers Robert Bakker's theories about warm-blooded dinosaurs (later written up in Bakker's The Dinosaur Heresies) and the link to birds, a good essay for people to review prior to the hullabaloo that will follow Jurassic Park 2 (it's always fun to check up on an author's source material).
Enjoyable but dated.......2002-09-09
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The Mismeasure of Man and The Panda's Thumb (2 Vol in Slipcase)
Manufacturer: Norton & Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000BP96DG |
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History is a collection of essays on natural history and evolution. ISBN: 0395013804, 342pp, illustrated. The Mismeasure of Man is a fascinating historical study of scientific racism. ISBN: 0395014894, 352pp, illustrated. 8.3 x 5x5 paperbacks in slipcase.
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000HVY86Y |
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The Mismeasure of Man & The Panda's Thumb: Boxed Set
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000I3VVX4 |
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The Panda's Thumb
Stephen Jay Gould Manufacturer: Books on Tape ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: 5557082387 |
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"There is grandeur in this view of life," wrote Charles Darwin in the last line of THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, "with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one."In THE PANDA'S THUMB, Gould delights and instructs while deepening and extending his examination of evolution, a centerpiece of modern science. Were dinosaurs really dumber than lizards? Why are roughly the same number of men and women born? What do the panda's magical "thumb" and the sea turtle's perilous migration tell us about imperfections that prove the evolutionary rule?
"These questions of life lie on a continuum that touches us all. Seldom have their mysteries been explained with such wit, beauty and elegance." (Publisher's Source)
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The Panda's Thumb : More Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould Manufacturer: New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1980 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000M1TDRS |
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The Panda's Thumb
Stephen Jay Gould Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0393300234 |
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Second Collection of Great Essays on Science and Life.......2005-05-14
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El Pulgar Del Panda/the Panda's Thumb
Stephen J. Gould Manufacturer: Blume Editorial Sa ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8472142728 |
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Entertaining science writing........1999-12-27
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The Flamingo's Smile / The Panda's Thumb / the Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
Stephen Jay Gould Manufacturer: W.W Norton Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000P7QXNQ |
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The Mismeasure of Man / The Panda's Thumb
Stephen Jay Gould Manufacturer: Norton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000IOCMQ8 |
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North Carolina Afield: A Guide to Nature Conservancy Projects in North Carolina
Ida Phillips Lynch , and Margaret Fields Manufacturer: Nature Conservancy, North Carolina Chapter ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0967502616 |
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Where on Earth can you find . . .Find out in North Carolina Afield.
Whether your passion is hiking, birding, paddling, or just driving along quiet back roads, North Carolina Afield will become a trusted resource for planning your expeditions in North Carolina. This guidebook offers detailed information about 92 of the most scenic and ecologically significant areas that The Nature Conservancy has protected in North Carolina: craggy mountain peaks that inspire poets and botanists alike; ancient swamp forests that once harbored Carolina parakeets; and wind-sculpted dunes and maritime forests on the dynamic Outer Banks.
All of these natural areas are open to the public and are managed as state parks, game lands, national forests, national wildlife refuges, and Nature Conservancy preserves. Every entry features ecological information, conservation history, tips on hiking trails or paddling routes, and current access and contact information, including websites and phone numbers. Photographs from premier nature photographers illustrate this beautifully designed publication.
Some of the wild lands featured in the book include:
Elk Knob -- Old growth forest covers this sky island that offers exquisite views of hidden valleys.
Gorges State Park -- This rugged, unfragmented wilderness is famous for its waterfalls, powerful rivers, and unique plants and animals.
South Mountains Game Land -- This isolated, sprawling mountain range in the Piedmont offers fishing and backcountry hiking.
Roanoke River Region - Public and private and conservation lands in this vast river floodplain provide ever-expanding paddling, hiking, and birding opportunities, including the Roanoke River Paddle Trail.
Black River Preserve - This pristine river is home to the oldest trees in eastern North America, a stand of 1,700-year-old bald cypress, as well as songbirds and black bears.
Sandhills Game Land - Miles of unpaved roads wind through the rolling hills in this 58,713-acre game land, one of North Carolina's most extensive and accessible longleaf pine habitats.
Kitty Hawk Woods Coastal Reserve - This remnant maritime forest on the Outer Banks offers hikers and paddlers a respite from the beach crowds.
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The Best.......2004-02-02
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A Guide to Nature Conservancy Projects in North Carolina
Ida Phillips Lynch , and Margaret Fields Manufacturer: Nature Conservancy, North Carolina Chapter, t ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0967502608 |
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A Guide to Nature Conservancy Projects in North Carolina provides natural history information and invaluable travel tips for visiting North Carolina's most unique wild places, ranging from Bat Cave in the Blue Ridge Mountains to Nags Head Woods on the Outer Banks. The guidebook focuses exclusively on natural areas that have been protected by The Nature Conservancy, a non-profit conservation organization that has saved more than 476,000 acres in North Carolina.Tourists and travelers can easily carry this portable guidebook in their glove compartment or backpack. Written for hikers, birders, paddlers, wildflower lovers, nature photographers, and armchair travelers, the book describes the most exceptional natural areas in each of North Carolina's geographical regions: the southern Appalachians, piedmont, coastal plain, and coast.
All of the areas featured in the book are open to the public. The sites include state parks, game lands, national wildlife refuges, or national forests, and Nature Conservancy preserves that are accessible through The Nature Conservancy's extensive field trip program. Each description includes an overview of the ecological features of the natural area, highlights about the conservation history of the project, ownership and access information, and directions to the site.
The book features photographs by well-known nature photographers, including Jeff Lepore, Jack Dermid, Carl Galie, Bill Lea, Harold E. Malde, Jay Kranyik, Michael Halminski, Derrik Hamrick, and Ken Taylor. The guidebook also includes a colorful foldout map of North Carolina based on an original watercolor by artist Mike Reagan.
A Guide to Nature Conservancy Projects in North Carolina features nationally significant Nature Conservancy preserves and projects, including:
Panthertown Valley - Located in Nantahala National Forest, Panthertown is a treat for hikers, offering spectacular open vistas and miles of trails on old logging roads. Anglers will relish the 20 miles of native trout streams.
Black River Preserve - The guidebook contains detailed directions to the best canoeing spots on this blackwater river that harbors the oldest trees in eastern North America - a stand of 1,700-year-old bald cypress.
Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge - Home to a thriving population of federally endangered red wolves, this 151,000-acre refuge offers excellent wildlife viewing opportunities for paddlers and birders alike.
Staff from The Nature Conservancy and the N.C. Natural Heritage Program wrote and edited the book.
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Get Lost!.......2003-01-18
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