Weddle's Directory of Employment-Related Internet Sites for Recruiters & Job Seekers 2003 (Weddle's Directory of Employment Realted Internet Sites for Recruiters and Job Seekers, 2003)

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Weddle's Directory of Employment-Related Internet Sites for Recruiters & Job Seekers 2003 (Weddle's Directory of Employment Realted Internet Sites for Recruiters and Job Seekers, 2003)
Peter Weddle
Manufacturer: Weddle's
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1928734138

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DVD Player Fundamentals will cover every aspect of the Digital Versatile Disc starting with features, specifications, hookup, operation, user error, and more. For the professional, specific technical information will include: DVD track structure and disc construction, optical head and lens features and specifications, video signal processing, MPEG-2 technology, audio signal processing, decoding, audio path and reference signals, switch-mode power supply, tracking servo, transverse servo, system control circuits, along with other related topics.

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Far too inaccurate.......2001-04-06

I'm sorry having to say so, but I cannot recommend this book. For most paragraphs, the reader is left to guess what the writer is really trying to say. Additionally, the book has numeral errors, even in the most fundamental data and calculations. A few examples:

`The original compact disc [has a] 100-kilobit-per-second data-ransfer rate' (sic, p. 42). In fact, the read data rate of a normal CD is more than ten times as much (16 bits times 44.1 kHz times two is already 1.41 Mbit/s, and that excludes al error and medium coding that has to be added). Presumably, the writer is confusing kilobit per second and kilobyte per second, but many subsequent calculations of data rates, storage sizes and so on won't stand up either.

`During operating, DVD-Audio can store 192-kHz, 24-bit, two-channel sound for 74 minutes on single-sided, single-layer discs. By using standard linear pcm coding, single-sided, single-layer discs can store 74 minutes of 192-kHz, 24-bit, two-channel sound. The DVD Forum Working Group 4 also introduced a lossless coding method that allows the transmission of limited-transfer-rate, high-frequency audio signals without any loss of the original musical information. With this method, DVD-Audio enables the storage of 74 minutes of sound.' (sic, p. 65)The firsdt two lines seem identical to me, and it is unclear what the fird one adds.

`. [...] The NTSC standard provides an aspect ration [...] of 4:3. Introduction of the HDTV standard establishes a larger aspect ratio of 16:9 [..] Because of this, the viewer gains the capability to receive almost six times more information.' (p. 62)

A good book on this interesting subject would be very welcome, but I'm afraid that this book will not meet the expectations you can reasonably have of a book.

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Accounting and Financial Fundamentals For Your Portable DVD Player Business
Jassen Bowman
Manufacturer: Web Launch, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000O2WHWI

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Accounting and Financial Fundamentals For Your Car DVD Players Business
James Orr
Manufacturer: LTBR
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000ORBFXA

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Accounting and Financial Fundamentals For Your Car DVD Players Business
James Orr
Manufacturer: LearnToBeRich.com, Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000O3SHR6

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Accounting and Financial Fundamentals For Your Combo DVD/CD/MP3 Players Business
James Orr and Jassen Bowman
Manufacturer: LTBR
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000ORMRB4

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Accounting and Financial Fundamentals For Your Combo DVD/CD/MP3 Players Business
James Orr and Jassen Bowman
Manufacturer: LearnToBeRich.com, Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000O3ULM0

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Accounting and Financial Fundamentals For Your DVD Players Business
James Orr
Manufacturer: LTBR
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000OQ2D5K

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Accounting and Financial Fundamentals For Your DVD Players Business
James Orr
Manufacturer: LearnToBeRich.com, Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000O2UFMW

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Accounting and Financial Fundamentals For Your Multi-Disc DVD Players Business
Jassen Bowman
Manufacturer: Web Launch, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000O3JLRQ

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Accounting and Financial Fundamentals For Your Multi-Disc DVD Players Business
Jassen Bowman
Manufacturer: Web Launch, Inc.
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Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000OR33LM

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This volume brings together a massive body of much-needed research information on a problem of crucial importance to labor economists, policy makers, and society in general: unemployment among the young. The thirteen studies detail the ambiguity and inadequacy of our present standard statistics as applied to youth employment, point out the error in many commonly accepted views, and show that many critically important aspects of this problem are not adequately understood. These studies also supply a significant amount of raw data, furnish a platform for further research and theoretical work in labor economics, and direct attention to promising avenues for future programs.

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Lehan's book provides readers with an illuminating and readable comprehensive intellectual and literary history of the major American, British, and Continental novels of Realism and Naturalism from 1850 to 1950. He offers readers a new way of reading these novels-working outward from the text to forms of historical representation. In this way, literary naturalism can be seen as a narrative mode that creates its own reality separate from that of other narrative modes. Employing this strategy, Lehan contends, readers will find a spectrum of meaning in these works that allows and encourages intertextuality-one novel talking or responding to another-for example, Zola's Nana to Dreiser's Sister Carrie or Zola's L'Assomoir to Sinclair's The Jungle.
The range of novelists and sub genres is staggering-Lehan studies the gothic novel, the urban novel, the detective novel, the novel of imperial adventure, the western novel, the noir novel, and the novels of utopia and distopia.

Realism and Naturalism The Novel in an Age of Transition

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Realism and Naturalism The Novel in an Age of Transition
Richard Lehan
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OS508U

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Realism and Naturalism: The Novel in an Age of Transition
Richard Daniel Lehan
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OS190I

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Great Deck, req for High Level Campaining

Incredibly easy to use

Deck of Wizard Spells (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: The Official Dungeon Master Decks) (Cards)
Steve Winter
Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
General | Role Playing & Fantasy | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1560763647

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Great Deck, req for High Level Campaining.......1998-08-04

This is a great deck for those of us RPGers who are serious and powerfull. Not so usefull to the lower level mages(due to the need to fiddle around with so many cards) but great for us 10th level to whatever (im 21est level Wild Mage) because it allows easy tracking and refenense to the more obscure spells.

Incredibly easy to use.......1998-07-03

This deck is one of the most importants supplements at the AD&D RPG. It makes the player's life much more easy. Once you starts to use it, you get addicted to it.

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Not very good book

Not very happy

confusing, badly structured

We need another revision ... will follow up :)

Not all the Exam Topics are covered. Confuse

MPLS and VPN Architectures, Vol. 1
Ivan Pepelnjak , and Jim Guichard
Manufacturer: Cisco Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Networks, Protocols & APIs | Networking | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
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All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Computers & Internet | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
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MPLS and VPN Architectures, Vol. 2

BGP Design and Implementation

Definitive MPLS Network Designs (Networking Technology)

Traffic Engineering with MPLS

Internet Routing Architectures (2nd Edition)

ASIN: 1587050021

Book Description

A practical guide to understanding, designing, and deploying MPLS and MPLS-enabled VPNs

In-depth analysis of the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) architecture
Detailed discussion of the mechanisms and features that constitute the architecture
Learn how MPLS scales to support tens of thousands of VPNs
Extensive case studies guide you through the design and deployment of real-world MPLS/VPN networks
Configuration examples and guidelines assist in configuring MPLS on Cisco® devices
Design and implementation options help you build various VPN topologies

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is an innovative technique for high-performance packet forwarding. There are many uses for this new technology, both within a service-provider environment and within the enterprise network, and the most widely deployed usage today is the enabling of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). With the introduction of MPLS-enabled VPNs, network designers are able to better scale their networks than with the methods available in the past.

Network engineers and administrators need quick, effective education on this technology to efficiently deploy MPLS-enabled VPNs within their networks. With that goal in mind, MPLS and VPN Architectures provides an in-depth discussion particular to Cisco's MPLS architecture. This book covers MPLS theory and configuration, network design issues, and case studies as well as one major MPLS application: MPLS-based VPNs. The MPLS/VPN architecture and all its mechanisms are explained with configuration examples, suggested design and deployment guidelines, and extensive case studies.

MPLS and VPN Architectures is your practical guide to understanding, designing, and deploying MPLS and MPLS-based VPNs.

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Not very good book.......2007-06-09

I couldn't understand anything from this book..Its definitely not for dummies. I am an MCSE,CCNA,CCNP and half CCIP and I have done all certs using self-study cisco books..but this one is probably not for self-study.

Now I am going to buy sybex one.

Thanks

Not very happy.......2007-02-02

I read this book in preparation for my Cisco MPLS exam, on my way to becoming a CCIP. I bought the 2 volumes. After reading the first one, I decided not to go ahead with the second. I work for a giant service provider, which is a fortune 500 company as well. I specifically work at the core network level. The core network transitioning from legacy SDH towards a pure IP/MPLS solution meant for me a fundamental understanding of MPLS.
First of all, never throughout the book did I understand what exactly was the problem that MPLS was aimed at solving. The words are there and you will read them 3 or 4 times. But nothing will sink in.
Configuration examples are there alright, but there was no clear, separate explanation of each and every component of the architecture. When and where do use MBGP, where do we redistribute which protocol, and so forth. You will have to do a lot of figuring out on your own, which will certainly mean a lot of guessing. And that is NOT why I bought a book on MPLS and VPNs :-)
This is not a book written in a style which assumes that you know nothing about the subject. On the contrary, it is so complicated that I think you need to know everything beforehand, and this book is only for reference ! This is certainly NOT a book for MPLS dummies.
The above conclusions I arrived at after I read one specific resource. Try to read the Cisco authorized course material, which is simply the instructor projector slides printed on paper, and a little explanation under it. Forget about the exam for a little while. For whoever is interested in REALLY understanding MPLS, and really understanding where each protocol goes, and the where and how and why of almost anything related to MPLS and VPNs, read that resource. Then compare it to this book. You will get my point.

confusing, badly structured.......2005-11-12

If you are looking for a clearly written book on mpls and vpn, don't buy this one. You probably will get much useful information from cisco's website.

The book is carried in a confusing way and the authors can't present clearly what problem they're trying to solve, or the logics behind the solutions. Most parts of the books is words piled up together without much meaning or logic.

We need another revision ... will follow up :).......2004-12-06

The CCIP edition of the book was written to comply with the MPLS 1.0 course from Cisco. In the meantime, Cisco rolled out MPLS 2.0 and MPLS 2.1, which expand (but shallow) the coverage of the MPLS technology and include additional topics not even implemented at the time when the CCIP edition of the book was written. It looks like a new CCIP edition of this MPLS classic is needed ... thanks for the hint, will start working on it :)

Not all the Exam Topics are covered. Confuse.......2004-11-05

Today I have done my 642-611 MPLS Exam. Before that, I studied the MPLS and VPN architectures. Latter, I decided to buy also the CCIP edition to study any new topic not covered by the previous edition. What have been my surprise when taking the exam and seeing several topics not covered by the CCIP edition (as EIGRP, detailed description of the LDP/TDP protocol operation and so on). I think that the way in what that book has been written, is quite confused. It is not a good starting book for the MPLS and VPN topic. I am aware that the book covers in depth several topics not related with the exam (no question at all about RR and Confederation, inter AS routing and so on) that are quite good when working with MPLS/VPN technology, but I must say that the book is not as good when trying to prepare your CCIP exam.

Any case, I have passed the exam thanks to this book so it, at the end, it has been good enough. Also, I think that is the unique Cisco Press book that covers MOST (but not all) the exam topics.

For all that, only three starts. Over the base of five, one less for not cover all the topics, and another less for being quite confuse for non initiated on the topic.

Samuel Bonete.

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This volume explores religious conversion in late antique and early medieval Europe at a time when the utility of the concept is vigorously debated. Though conversion was commonly represented by ancient and early medieval writers as singular and personally momentous mental events, contributors to this volume find gradual and incomplete social processes lurking behind their words. A mixture of examples and approaches will both encourage a deepening of specialist knowledge and spark new thinking across a variety of sub-fields. The historical settings treated here stretch from the Roman Hellenism of Justin Martyr in the second century to the ninth-century programs of religious and moral correction by resourceful Carolingian reformers. Baptismal orations, funerary inscriptions, Christian narratives about the conversion of stage-performers, a bronze statue of Constantine, early Byzantine ethnographic writings, and re-located relics are among the book's imaginative points of entry. This focused collection of essays by leading scholars, and the afterword by Neil McLynn, should ignite conversations among students of religious conversion and related processes of cultural interaction, diffusion, and change both in the historical sub-fields of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages and well beyond.This book is one of two collections of essays on religious conversion drawn from the activities of the Shelby Cullum Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University between 1999 and 2001. The other volume, Conversion: Old Worlds and New, is also published by the University of Rochester Press.CONTRIBUTORS: SUSAN ELM, ANTHONY GRAFTON, RICHARD LIM, REBECCA LYMAN, MICHAEL MAAS, NEIL McLYNN, KENNETH MILLS, ERIC REBILLARD, JULIA M. H. SMITH, RAYMOND VAN DAM.

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The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments from 2700 BC to AD 2005

Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness America: Over 350 Eyewitness Accounts of American History in the Making, 1492-2002

ASIN: 0786717033

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The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military and otherwise.

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Diplomat, linguist, politician, and naturalist, Vermonter George Perkins Marsh was a 19th-century polymath who is now widely considered the father of the modern conservation movement. Marsh was the first man to recognize the extent and destructiveness of the human impact on the environment, and his 1864 book, Man and Nature; or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, has been described by the Washington Post as "the wellspring of the environmental movement."

While Man and Nature continues to be cited and read, Marsh's earlier, groundbreaking writings on environmental topics have been unavailable (even though they may be more accessible to modern readers than his sometimes obtuse magnum opus). In an invaluable service to those interested in the development of environmental thought, Stephen C. Trombulak has gathered into a single volume Marsh's most significant conservation writings -- including key passages from Man and Nature -- and has annotated them in the light of contemporary conservation thinking. These speeches, letters, and reports not only document the development of Marsh's own ideas, they also offer insight into the state of conservation thinking in the early 19th century.

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