Skin Diseases of Dogs and Cats: A Guide for Pet Owners and Professionals

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Best Resource Book I've Found!.......2007-04-01

This is the best book on skin diseases of dogs and cats I've found. Very complete and well written. A necessary resource book for breeders and other professions. Invaluable!!!!!

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Want to find every pizza place within a 15-mile radius? Where the dog parks are in a new town? The most central meeting place for your class, club or group of friends? The cheapest gas stations on a day-to-day basis? The location of convicted sex offenders in an area to which you may be considering moving? The applications, serendipitous and serious, seem to be infinite, as developers find ever more creative ways to add to and customize the satellite images and underlying API of Google Maps.

Written by Schuyler Erle and Rich Gibson, authors of the popular Mapping Hacks, Google Maps Hacks shares dozens of tricks for combining the capabilities of Google Maps with your own datasets. Such diverse information as apartment listings, crime reporting or flight routes can be integrated with Google's satellite imagery in creative ways, to yield new and useful applications.

The authors begin with a complete introduction to the "standard" features of Google Maps. The adventure continues with 60 useful and interesting mapping projects that demonstrate ways developers have added their own features to the maps. After that's given you ideas of your own, you learn to apply the techniques and tools to add your own data to customize and manipulate Google Maps. Even Google seems to be tacitly blessing what might be seen as unauthorized use, but maybe they just know a good thing when they see one.

With the tricks and techniques you'll learn from Google Maps Hacks, you'll be able to adapt Google's satellite map feature to create interactive maps for personal and commercial applications for businesses ranging from real estate to package delivery to home services, transportation and more. Includes a foreword by Google Maps tech leads, Jens and Lars Rasmussen.

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Good information that's out of date.......2007-01-27

The book is interesting and has many good ideas and some valuable information. Be aware, however, that the advanced hacks (those dealing with calling the API from your own code) are based on a now obsolete version of the API. So, for example, Hack 62 that tells you how to find that longitude and latitude of an address doesn't tell you that you can accomplish the task via Google now. Hack 58 (Find the right zoom level) has one (of three) technique that uses an undocumented API that has, apparently, gone away. And, of course, it doesn't provide the easy way to do it using the current API.

I'm not faulting the authors for not seeing into the future. The book is well written and engaging. Just be aware that parts of it are already out of date.

Valuable content from all perspectives.......2006-09-08

I've read both this and the ExtremeTech "Hacking Google Maps," and both have their place, but I found this one to be much more valuable.

It doesn't contain any introductory information to the API, which some may be looking for, but it's not something that I would expect to see in a Hacks book anyway. With the v2 release of the API in April 2006, Google's own documentation has gotten a lot better, and it's the best place to go for a tutorial.

The book contains a great collection of hacks from all perspectives: users looking to get the most out of Google Maps, power users looking to push the functionality in new ways, and developers using the API. There's also a good overview of some popular mashups from the mashups' developers perspectives, and extensions to the API (e.g. TLabel, TPhoto).

Because there are so many contributors, you'll notice a change in tone and writing style throughout the book; and different coding practices are easy to spot, e.g. one code sample might use a standard, documented JS call, while another uses a homegrown function to accomplish the same thing. Another drawback is that the book is written to v1 of the API, which was replaced months ago, although is backwards compatible. This doesn't affect readability or value, but several of the undocumented features in the book are in fact documented in v2!

Great book, filled with useful information.

VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!.......2006-08-27

Google Maps Hacks: Tips & Tools for Geographic Searching and Remixing (Hacks) (Paperback)

Are you a Google application developer? If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Rich Gibson and Schuyler Erle, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that shows you how to take full advantage of the mapping capabilities in Google Local.

Gibson and Erle, begin by showing you how to look up locations, get driving directions, look at satellite pictures, share links to maps in e-mails and on web pages, generate links to maps from a spreadsheet, and use del.icio.us. Then, the authors show you how to put a map on your page, capture user clicks, create a slideshow connected with a map, create custom icons, and measure distances. Next, they cover a variety of mashups, from mapping the news, to seeing where criminals "work," to weather maps, to answering the question: where is the Space Telescope right now. The authors then help you find the cheapest gas near you, load driving directions into your GPS to take with you, look at your GPS track logs, explore hiking trails, figure out why your cell phone doesn't work at home, and even beat a traffic ticket. They continue by showing you how to geocode your photos on Flickr, set up a blog that knows about place, geocode literature, and examine the choices that go into which satellite images are included. Then, the authors show you how to tweak and extend the Google map. Finally, they show you how to use a clustering algorithm so that your own points fit properly on a map, create your own map tiles, connect to a database, use web standards to display other data on your maps, an even figure out if your kids are likely to barf.

This most excellent book will show you how to make the most of Google Maps. More importantly, you'll find the tools and inspiration you need right in this book!

Where are the basics?.......2006-08-07

The collection of apps here are fascinating. But I looked for a tutorial telling me "this is how you embed a map, select several points of interest, and label them.". It was not visible.

DIY Cartography.......2006-04-03

Everyone knows Google Maps. Google has gone out of its way to make Google Maps something that everyone knows about, uses, and talks about. There are blogs that are just about all the mash-ups and hacks people have come up with for Google Maps.

And now, O'Reilly has released Google Maps Hacks, showing how anyone can use the Google Maps API for their own benefit, with a little help.

The book starts off with a basic tutorial on how to add a Google Map to your site - if you're going to mash up, you have to have something to mash, after all! It also (in Hack 27) shows you how to use Greasemap to add Google Maps functionality to any web site (assuming you've already got Greasemonkey and Firefox is your browser). As with all hacks books, Google Maps Hacks includes some basic hacks that just about anyone can do (and points to some great places to see great hacks already done!), and some that are going to require a bit of work and some programming skill.

There were several hacks in the book that I really loved. First, the book pointed me to a site promising to show me where I could find cheap gas. They've integrated Google Maps with GasBuddy to create something incredibly useful, though I wish it were updated more often. (My local station hasn't been updated since September of 2005!)

To use the really good hacks, you'll need a GPS. Many of the mash-ups are best used when you're out on the road. (Hack 35 shows how to dump Google Maps data to your GPS system, and #37 shows how to reverse that process and import your GPS Tracklogs to Google Maps.)

The most useful part of the book, though, is when we get to see how various mash-ups work. It's one thing to see a great use of the Google Maps API, it's another thing completely to understand how that's done so that you can do it yourself. And that's really what's valuable about the Hacks books - you're shown how something is done, so you can take that understanding and apply it to what you want to do. That's what hacking is all about - information and application of that information in new ways.

Celestial Navigation When Your GPS Fails

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Celestial Navigation When Your GPS Fails
Mark Breach
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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ASIN: 1412026679
Release Date: 2006-06-30

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The ultimate manual for bluewater navigation, complete with all the forms and data, for when your electronics fail.

Latitude and Longitude (Rookie Read-About Geography)

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Great for Beginning Readers and ESOL students!

Latitude and Longitude (Rookie Read-About Geography)
Rebecca Aberg
Manufacturer: Children's Press (CT)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0516277650

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Great for Beginning Readers and ESOL students! .......2004-12-17

This will help your students develop the understanding and comprehension of longitutel and latitude for map skills.

Continental Divide GPS Companion : Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico

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Continental Divide GPS Companion : Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico
Clayton L. Wendt
Manufacturer: Wendt Co Inc
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ASIN: 1891759116

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The book lists GPS coordinates for over 8500 points in the States of Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming. Special attention is given to the features that make the mountain country so interesting. Over 530 mountain summits are listed with elevation, along with over 400 passes and 290 waterfalls.

The points are listed in Degrees and Minutes like this: DD-MM.MM, and most include elevation. They are organized alphabetically with separate book sections for each State.

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U.S. Government light lists cover Maine to Texas in five volumes, each costing $25. Thanks to John and Leslie Kettlewell's painstaking editing, The International Marine Light List & Waypoint Guide offers the equivalent geographic coverage in one inexpensive volume. With its alphabetical listing of the significant lights and buoys within each state, which are also cross-referenced from the harbors or channels within which they may be found, this guide offers quick, clear access for boaters. Here in one convenient, accurate, compact, and economical package is information from five government Light Lists, with critical navigation information including: Latitude/longitude positions for thousands of lights, bouys, and daymarks; Light list data from the U.S. Coast Guard; Detailed descriptions of every aid to navigation; Alphabetical listings for quick reference; Coverage of coastal waters from Maine to Texas, including the Bahamas; GPS user's guide.

American Atlas: United States Latitudes, Longitudes, Time Changes and Time Zones

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American Atlas: United States Latitudes, Longitudes, Time Changes and Time Zones
Thomas G. Shanks
Manufacturer: ACS Publications
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Binding: Hardcover

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The international atlas: World latitudes, longitudes, and time changes

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The international atlas: World latitudes, longitudes, and time changes
Thomas G Shanks
Manufacturer: ACS Publications
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Binding: Hardcover

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North Central GPS Companion

Manufacturer: Wendt Companies
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ASIN: 1891759140

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The book lists GPS coordinates for over 8200 points in the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. These points include cities and small towns, as well as golf courses, major parks, waterfalls, colleges, forestry towers plus summits, rock pillars, lighthouses and many more. The points are listed in Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds for Latitude and Longitude. Most points also include elevation!

Each Companion includes a helpful "How far is a Minute" section tailored to the area covered by the book. This section and the handy data format conversion tables are intended to help solve real navigational problems quickly and easily.

The book is compact enough to carry in a backpack or map case. It measures 5.25" x 4.0" and just under 1 inch thick. (425 Pages)

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International Atlas, Revised: World Latitudes, Longitudes, and Time Changes
Thomas G. Shanks
Manufacturer: ACS Publications
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 093512716X

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For over 25 years, primatologists have speculated that intelligence, at least in monkeys and apes, evolved as an adaptation to the complicated social milieu of hard-won friendships and bitterly contested rivalries. Yet the Balkanization of animal research has prevented us from studying the same problem in other large-brained, long-lived animals, such as hyenas and elephants, bats and sperm whales. Social complexity turns out to be widespread indeed. For example, in many animal societies one individual's innovation, such as tool use or a hunting technique, may spread within the group, thus creating a distinct culture. As this collection of studies on a wide range of species shows, animals develop a great variety of traditions, which in turn affect fitness and survival.

The editors argue that future research into complex animal societies and intelligence will change the perception of animals as gene machines, programmed to act in particular ways and perhaps elevate them to a status much closer to our own. At a time when humans are perceived more biologically than ever before, and animals as more cultural, are we about to witness the dawn of a truly unified social science, one with a distinctly cross-specific perspective?

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Good entrance point into the literature.......2007-05-12

This is a collection of scientific articles on animal cognition and its relationship to social structure. It covers a wide range of species, from wolves, to dolphins, to chimpanzees to elephants. To me, it plugs an important hole between more general books on the theory of evolutionary psychology and actual field research. I found it particularly interesting, because most books on this subject stick to the primates. To broaden the scope to include other high-intelligence mammals, such as dolphins and elephants, was valuable. It makes it possible to start thinking about animal cognition and social structure, in a genuinely cross-species context.

This is not a book for the beginner or the casual reader. These are actual, technical scientific papers. The book is aimed at those who want the real science, in a handier format than digging out the articles from scientific journals.

O.K., but not what I expected.......2005-09-29

I was very excited to read this book, it looked like an excellent compilation of interesting research from a wide range of fields. However, I was dissappointed by the contents. Most chapters are just reviews of the general research of the authors, and some hardly address the idea of intelligence and culture. Some authors spend the whole chapter just reviewing their research, and then in the last paragraph run over their thoughts on if there is intelligence or culture in their study species in just a few sentences. Having said that, some chapters are golden and well worth the read. Because this book is relatively cheap for a science book, I would say that the few insightful chapters make it worth the cost, but overall it was not as informative or interesting as I had hoped.

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High performance computing consumes and generates vast amounts of data, and the storage, retrieval, and transmission of this data are major obstacles to effective use of computing power. Challenges inherent in all of these operations are security, speed, reliability, authentication and reproducibility. This workshop focused on a wide variety of technical results aimed at meeting these challenges. Topics ranging from the mathematics of coding theory to the practicalities of copyright preservation for Internet resources drew spirited discussion and interaction among experts in diverse but related fields. We hope this volume contributes to continuing this dialogue.

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Really humourous book.......2000-05-16

Nightmare Abbey is absolutely wonderful for the most part. Love Peacock has a very witty and slightly subversive take on the concept of Romanticism. His attacks on the melancholy aspects of the period are especially amusing, the owner of Nightmare Abbey who only employs servants with depressing looks, and even more depressing names is brilliantly written. The only downside to the novel is the dialogue which I found quite difficult in comparison to the main narrative, but it was definately worth the effort.

One of the most humorous books ever.......1999-11-10

This is easily one of the funniest books I have ever read. Two separate novels from one of the premier wits and classical scholars of the last century, both dealing with contemporary figures, mildly disguised, and contemporary issues.

If you find Gothic novels far too over the top, or delight in parody of the likes of Byron, Coleridge, and Shelley, you'll love this book, which includes touching descriptions of British landscape along with its heavy dose of good-natured mockery.

The introduction and footnotes are gems as well. If only the complete run of Peacock novels were in print in this fashion.

A must for anyone interested in Romanticism, British history, and good fun!

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Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle
Thomas Love Peacock
Manufacturer: Capricorn Books
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ASIN: B000O3T9V4

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NIGHTMARE ABBEY AND CROTCHET CASTLE
J B PRIESTLEY
Manufacturer: HAMISH HAMILTON
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Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle
Thomas Love Peacock
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Nightmare Abbey Crotchet Castle
Thomas Love Peacock
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Nightmare Abbey/ Crotchet Castle
Thomas Love Peacock
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Nightmare Abbey: The misfortunes of Elphin. Crotchet Castle (Rinehart editions, 148)
Thomas Love Peacock
Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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ASIN: 0030830257

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The pleasures of Peacock,: Comprising in whole or in part the seven novels of Thomas Love Peacock: Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, Maid Marian, ... of Elphin, Crotchet Castle, Gryll Grange
Thomas Love Peacock
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus
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Thomas Love Peacock, "Nightmare Abbey" and "Crotchet Castle" (York Notes)
Linda Cookson
Manufacturer: Longman
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Three Novels - Headlong Hall -Nightmare Abbey-Crotchet Castle
Thomas Love, Peacock
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