Document Object Model : Processing Structured Documents

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Here is the ultimate guide to creating and extending documents within the application programming interface of the Document Object Model (DOM). The book examines real-world applications of the DOM, including exclusive case studies of DOM-based browsers and applications and provides a comprehensive, language-neutral examination of the DOM and its related applications.

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Great DOM coverage with excellent examples!.......2003-10-16

This book rightfully deserves 5 stars. Is it revolutionary in the sense of "unleashing" DOM? No. If you love reading HTML documentation you can get pretty much the same scope at the W3C site (which the author himself acknowledges). It is more of a wake-up call for web developers.

The ideas presented in the book are very elegant which makes them very valuable. The author explains subtle and obvious differences in the DOM support as implemented by different browser vendors. It has been of great help in my work since I read this book.

Part III alone ("Practical Uses of the DOM") is worth the time and money for its real-life applications of DOM!

Finally a DOM book!.......2002-10-15

The DOM these days is available in a multitude of programming languages and environments. Not so many people have the knowledge to properly handle the topic, moving back and forward across different languages and implementations, Joe Marini is definitely one of the few. As a matter of fact this is the first book ever available on the subject, and long awaited one! Joe covers much more than just DOM programming for browsers and the books contains a few gems like coverage of Xerces, Dreamweaver's API, generic DOM algorithms and a dedicated chapter on the future of DOM. A must have for anyone doing sophisticated client-side programming for web browsers, this book will be also very useful to anyone dealing with the DOM in any other environment

Scholarly work on an advanced topic.......2002-09-16

I have a great deal of interest in the document object model, as it is the basis of HTML and XML documents. Anyone interested in working with HTML, XML, DHTML in an advanced way should read this book and learn from it. This isn't a book for people with a passing interest in slapping together Web pages in Front Page, but it will give you a solid knowledge of the advanced topics of DOM manipulation using JavaScript.

The book starts with some solid theory and explanation of the DOM API, but quickly moves to some practical examples, such as some useful debugging tools, and some HTML interface components (popup menus, in-place list editing) which will get you off on the right foot thinking about how you can implement your own interface elements. That's really the strongest aspect of the book -- getting you to think in new ways.

An excellent resource.......2002-09-12

I read through this book in detail, and I must say that I learned a lot about the DOM that I had previously glossed over. The DOM spec is much more powerful and interesting than what most folks assume. This book gives you insights on building real-world applications using the DOM, as well as helping to deal with cross-browser issues. As I said, it's a great resource for both web developers and web-based application developers.

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Volume XXVI (2002) of the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook contains statistical data on government financial operations for 130 IMF member countries. Detailed annual data (extending through 2000 or 2001 for most countries) are presented on revenue, expenditure, and financing transactions. All data conform to standards set forth in A Manual on Government Finance Statistics and are comparable from country to country. This yearbook provides data on budgetary operations, extrabudgetary operations, social security transactions, and consolidated financial operations of central governments. When available, data are also presented for state and local governments. Institutional tables list information on government units. A section of the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook is devoted to a cross-country presentation of data classified by topic.

Government Finance Statistics Yearbook: 2002 (Government Finance Statistics Yearbook, 2002)

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Government Finance Statistics Yearbook: 2002 (Government Finance Statistics Yearbook, 2002)

Manufacturer: International Monetary Fund
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The contributors study the three major river basins of the Middle East, and address the difficulties faced by the countries in this arid region. They make practical suggestions for a basin-wide approach to international water management. This book will be of interest to all professionals concerned with water resources planning and management; policy-makers.

International Waters of the Middle East : From Euphrates-Tigris to Nile (Water Resources Management Ser., No. 2)

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International Waters of the Middle East : From Euphrates-Tigris to Nile (Water Resources Management Ser., No. 2)
Asit K. (editor) Biswas
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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The Atlas of Neutron Resonances provides detailed information on neutron resonances, thermal neutron cross sections, and average resonance properties which are important to neutron physicist, astrophysicists, solid state physicists, reactor engineers, scientists involved in activation analysis, and evaluators of neutron cross sections.

· Compilation and evaluation of the world's thermal neutron cross-sections and resonance parameters for neutron physicists, reactor engineers, and neutron evaluators.
· Compilation and evaluation of coherent scattering lengths for solid state physicists and evaluators
· Compilation and evaluation of average 30-keV capture cross sections for astrophysicists.
· Nuclear level density parameters derived from average spacings of neutron resonances following a new approach (new feature for this edition).
· Brief review of sub-threshold fission.
· Comparisons of optical model predictions with neutron strength function data and scattering lengths.
· Estimation of average E1 radiative widths on the basis of the generalized Landau-Fermi liquid model (a new feature for this edition).

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Ever had a date eat a floral centerpiece at a wedding? Ever thought the Olympics should be held in the New York City subway system? Ever wondered why you dead bolt your front door but leave your wallet under a flip flop at the beach? Fingers Crossed, Legs Uncrossed explores these subjects and more while offering a hilarious glimpse of an ordinary person experiencing life in extraordinary ways.

Journey through life with a perpetual underdog who contemplates the mass return of the heinous station wagon and obsesses about being “pee-shy” in the workplace restroom, all while trying to survive a daily commute.

Despite the cynicism and sardonic wit that bites through much of Fingers Crossed, Legs Uncrossed, optimism prevails as often does the underdog.

After breaking up with someone for the third time, being laid off for the second, or being pushed on the subway for what is sworn to be “the last”, laugh about how someone else deals with a series of urban adventures hoping for the best and just keeping Fingers Crossed, Legs Uncrossed.

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Journey through life with a perpetual underdog who contemplates the mass return of the heinous station wagon and obsesses about being 'pee-shy" in the workplace restroom, all while trying to survive a daily commute.

Despite the cynicism and sardonic wit that bites through much of Fingers Crossed, Legs Uncrossed, optimism prevails as often does the underdog.

After breaking up with someone for the third time, being laid off for the second, or being pushed on the subway for what is sworn to be 'the last", laugh about how someone else deals with a series of urban adventures hoping for the best and just keeping Fingers Crossed, Legs Uncrossed.

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Fingers Crossed Rocks!!.......2005-05-03

Five Stars for this humorous glimpse of New York City living and beyond. It'll leave you wanting more. It's a trip worth taking. Bring it to the beach, the baths, the toilet. Buy it for your friends, I promise, they'll love you for it.

Trish.......2005-04-19

I just finished "Fingers Crossed, Legs Uncrossed" and still laughing outloud.. Ms. Limarzi is on paper what Seinfeld is on TV.. The stories make you laugh cause you've been there as well--You must read: "naked locker room", "woman against mouse" and "Return of the dreaded station wagon" -- this is a perfect book to pick up for 5 minutes or 45 minutes and get a good laugh all the way through!

Humor the best medicine.......2005-04-01

This young lady knows what it is to live in Manhattan. Despite that she maintains a wonderful sense of humor and a writing style to get it across to the reader. In this day and age, humor is not only the best medicine, it's a necessity and Ms. LiMarzi makes our day!

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This landmark study was first published in English by the Naval Institute in 1955 and was added to the Classics of Naval Literature series in 1992. Widely acknowledged for its valuable Japanese insights into the battle that turned that tide of war in the Pacific, the book has made a great impact on American readers over the years. Two Japanese naval aviators who participated in the operation provide an unsparing analysis of what caused Japan's staggering defeat.

Mitsuo Fuchida, who led the first air strike on Pearl Harbor, commanded the Akagi carrier air group and later made a study of the battle at the Japanese Naval War College. Masatake Okumiya, one of Japan's first dive-bomber pilots, was aboard the light carrier Ryujo and later served as a staff officer in a carrier division. Armed with knowledge of top-secret documents destroyed by the Japanese and access to private papers, they show the operation to be ill-conceived and poorly planned and executed, and fault their flag officers for lacking initiative, leadership, and clear thinking. With an introduction by an author known for his study of the battle from the American perspective, the work continues to make a significant contribution to World War II literature.

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Mitsuo Fuchida was a liar..........2006-09-03

As a Navy brat who grew up in the postwar era, Midway was a big deal. Of course, I read and enjoyed Fuchida's book. However, I recently finished reading "Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway" by Jonathan Parshall. In this book, it's clearly demonstrated that Fuchida did more than shade the truth. He lied in such a way to push blame upon others for Japan's defeat at Midway. For example, Fuchida makes the claim that the Japanese were getting ready to launch their strike just at the time the American SBDs dive bombed their carriers. Parshall shows how that was impossible given both Japanese carrier practice and the logs of flight activity. Sadly, Fuchida's book has enjoyed an unwarranted popularily due to our ignorance of Japanese documents and our lack of desire to question something that fits right into our own prejudices.

The Japanese historians consider Fuchida to be a liar. It's time that we do the same.

One of the best works on the Battle of Midway.......2006-09-02

I first read this account of the battle of Midway almost fourty years ago. As an avid student of World War II, I have read many books dealing with this battle, but this is the best in telling the Japanese side of the battle. It gives the American reader an account of the battle from the Japanese viewpoing, with emphasis on the fatal minutes when the Japanese fighters were wave-hopping after the last of the torpedo planes, leaving the sky above open to the three squadrons of American dive bombers to change the course of the battle and the war itself. I have read many versions of this battle from the American viewpoing, but this is still the best coming from the Japanese viewpoint. I have had a copy of this work in my library since I first read it back in the late sixties, and still consider it one of the best.

More grist for the revisionist theory behind Pearl Harbor........2006-02-05

Considering that this book was written in 1955, shortly after the Official US occupation of Japan ended, and considering that the author was indeed a fairly high ranking operational and planner of both Midway and Pearl Harbor Attacks, this book should be part of anyone's libraray whose shares an interest in the war between Japan and the US.

The author's knowledge and his particular place in the pecking order must be considered. As a former US combat pilot, with some operational planning experience, I am well aware that I was not informed of all details, only those that I had a need to know. Mitsui Fuchida was a staff officer, not a flag officer. He may have gained additional knowledge after the war's end, but most of the Admiral's who had overall knowledge of Pearl Harbor and Midway Operations were killed before the war ended.

There were also political concerns Fuchida had to navigate, in order to get his book published in 1955.

As a pilot, I was sympathetic to many of Fuchida's views. I enjoyed his descriptions of a warrior's duties, regardless of nationality. In some respects, we have more in common with our fellow aviators, than with our leaders.

For years, I accepted the standard version of the Pearl Harbor Attack on 7 Dec 41. I was at Pearl during the time the movie Tora Tora Tora was filmed. It was that event that lead to my discovery by talking to some older personnel of Japanese Ancestry, that unlike those in California, they were not sent to camps. I began reading whatever I could find on the subject, which includes this book.

Fuchida's book offers two major questions. How could two task forces covering the same sea lanes, confronting the same terrible sort of weather, without radar, within less than one year do so, under comletely "radio silence". Fuchida admits that during the Midway attack, low power radio signals were used, but were picked up in Japan. The generally accepted Japanese version of the Pearl Harbor attack, was that radio transmissions were not sent. But the question immediately arises. How would Fuchida, an Air Officer, know what conditions were confronting the various ships that comprised the Pearl Harbor attack force? Fuchida and the world knows that the Pearl Harbor force faced terrible weather and had to refuel in less than ideal conditions. They had to make course corrections. Is it unreasonable to think that the same reasons applied in May of 1942, would have applied in December of 1941?

Revisionists have challanged the traditional view of radio silence, by presenting numerous examples of transmissions from the "empty sea" during both periods. Traditionalists have maintained that Japan's sneak attack suceeded because they maintained strict radio silence. Men like Fuchida inforce that view. But was Fuchida the right person to ask? Did he mearly assume that what he was told by his superiors was correct?

Since Midway was a "victory" for the US, knowledge of the attack was acceptable and did not inflict any harm to anyone's careers or poltical postions. The same could not be said of Pearl Harbor. A Japanese Author in 1955, would be less likely of publishing something that discredited miltary and politcal reputations. I would not accuse Fuchida of deception, I would only suggest that he did not know as much about the Pearl Harbor Operation as he did about Midway.

Read the book, see if you come to the same conclussion.

Who Won At Midway Anyway?.......2006-02-04

This classic work of the battle of Midway is basically an entertaining and well written account of the Japanese view of the battle as voiced by the opinions and personal observations of Fuchida. There are many inaccuracies and the book is not nearly as scholarly as "Shattered Sword" which also describes the battle from the Japanese viewpoint.

My first review of this book came from no less than R. E. Best, the American bomber pilot who likely dropped the critical bomb on Akagi. He pointed out several errors and several other attempts to justify Japanese actions. Fuchida's book is comparable to the Lord classic "Incredible Victory" but this one has little place as a reference work. The book has many editor's notes which explain some of the problems but there are many others which are small but basically errors in the account. An example was the American B-26 attack on the Akagi. He describes the one plane that came low over the ship as passing from port to starboard then crashing into the sea. In fact the plane flown by LT. Mori passed straight down the Akagi flight deck from bow to stern and returned to Midway with significant damage. This event should have been directly in front of Fuchida as he reports he was lying on the flight deck. Minor point but it makes one wonder how many other errors in detail exist in the first person account.

The book appears to have been written as an post-war apology to the Japanese readers and contains continual excuses. The author criticizes the Japanese leadership with justification but the book could be titled "20-20 Hindsight at Midway".

One always learns from history........2005-08-06

This book written in the 1950's is an excellant account of the battle from the Japanese's point of view. The Japanese lost this battle because of a bad plan. This book teaches the value of having a good plan based on facts nor fiction. This is of course important for miltary plans, but it also applies to business and life in general. Anyone involved in planning anything should read this book.

Midway (The Battle That Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story)

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End of Japanese Imperialism

Midway (The Battle That Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story)

Manufacturer: Naval Institute Press
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ASIN: 0739426532

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End of Japanese Imperialism.......2007-02-26

As someone that lived through WW II as an military aviator and later served in the US Embassy in Japan meeting a number of Japanese officials mentioned in this book it held a lot of interest for me. Well written and honest about the many failures in plannng by Adm Yamamoto and others.

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Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, The Japanese Navy's Story.
MITSUO FUCHIDA
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Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story (Unabridged)

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Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story (Unabridged)
Okumiya, Mitsuo, Masatake Fuchida
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Midway - the Battle that Doomed Japan, The Japanese Navy's Story
Mitsuo And Masatake Okumiya Fuchida
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MIDWAY : The Battle That Doomed Japan : The Japanese Navy's Story
Mitsuo and Okumiya, Masatake of the Imperial Japanese Navy Fuchida
Manufacturer: Hutchison
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Midway : The Battle That Doomed Japan, The Japanese Navy's Story
Mitsuo and Okumiya, Masatake Fuchida
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MIDWAY, THE BATTLE THAT DOOMED JAPAN- THE JAPANESE NAVY'S STORY

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Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story
Mitsuo Fuchida
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Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story
Mitsuo; Okumiya, Masatake Fuchida
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Stanley Vestal
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Stanley Vestal
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Stanley Vestal
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Stanley Vestal
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Stanley Vestal
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Stanley Vestal
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BEYOND THE IVORY TOWER the Frontiers of Public and Private Science
SIR SOLLY ZUCKERMAN
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