Peregrinations: a man's journey

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Peregrinations: A Man's Journey is the story of a life that may never have been, that of a man who survived a plane crash, and escaped Portland, Oregon, to become a globetrotting private banker for wealthy Middle Eastern clients. After paying his dues in Liberia under President Tubman, and in Saudi Arabia just before the oil crisis of 1973, Cedric Grant experiences the heyday of international banking, as Walter Wriston transforms Citibank into the largest financial institution in the world. Luck and perseverance combine to turn ugly twists of fate into golden opportunities, and place Cedric in a position to help save Citibank from bankruptcy in the early 1990s.

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Steroid heroes ?.......2005-08-03

Apparently rushed into print to take advantage of the chemically-fueled Sosa/McGwire home run race. Fine photos, but lacks any analysis at all. Not up to the high standard set by SI.

Sammy's Season: Introduction by Skip Bayless

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Sammy's Season: Introduction by Skip Bayless
Ntc Publishing Group
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Sammy's Super Season
Lindsay Camp
Manufacturer: Corgi Books
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The Single-Season Home Run Kings: Ruth, Maris, McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds

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The Single-Season Home Run Kings: Ruth, Maris, McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds
William McNeil
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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After Babe Ruth erased Buck Freeman's record in 1919, the new mark stood for 34 years before Maris bettered it, defying as he did an incredulous sporting public. And just as fans' anger grew old and Maris was grudgingly credited—or discredited—with an unrepeatable hot streak, along came Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, two goliaths who in 1998 and the years just after proved fans wrong again. But when in 2001, only three years after McGwire seemed to put the record beyond reach, Barry Bonds topped him by two. This time fans were staunch in their disbelief, and while many celebrated Bonds' achievement, others questioned its significance.

This revised edition of Bill McNeil's Ruth, Maris, McGwire, and Sosa ("libraries especially will want this"—Library Journal) reviews the careers of each home run titan, with special attention to the record-breaking seasons. The cultural and social changes that may have affected both the players' season totals and fan reception are also considered.

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Slugger Season GB (All Aboard Reading. Station Stop 3)
Laura Driscoll
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1998 will go down in baseball history as the year of the great home-run-race. Roger Maris's record of 61 home runs in a single season had stood for 37 years. But now it is a new record of 70 homers, held by Mark McGuire, that future sluggers will chase. Read all about this amazing season and th eplayers, especially Sammy Sosa, who made th erace so exciting.

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Beautiful book
Wonderful children's book!
Loved it.
Get this book - great moral of the story for all ages!
A charming, entertaining, and recommended picturebook

There's a Season for All
Sammy Shu
Manufacturer: Silver Rose Publishing
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Beautiful book.......2007-04-29

Reviewed by Brianne Plach (age 9) for Reader Views (4/07)

The queen of Tween Land has four daughters. The name of Tweenland is a play on words because a tween is somewhere between being a child and being an adult. The princesses were all born just hours apart and they all are different from each other. They have definite characteristics unique to them. Winter has hair the color of snow and blue wings. Spring is a lover of life and she has red wings. Summer has the coloring of a sunflower and eyes colored like grass. Fall is the youngest with orange hair and brown eyes. Each of the sisters thought they should be in control. But when you have 4 fairies all wanting to be the boss, disharmony will result. This book talks about harmony and working together.

I really liked the brightly colored pages and facial expressions on the girls' faces. Sammy Shu has a way of describing their personalities and strengths. Cari Cone's illustrations really bring the text to life. "There's a Season for All" is a beautiful book both in its storyline and pictures.

Wonderful children's book!.......2007-04-14

If your child has ever wondered why there are four different seasons during the year, here is a fun make-believe story about how the seasons began. Four fairy sisters have to learn what it takes to get along and live in harmony. Your child will be sure to enjoy this sweet book. The story, writing and illustrations are all wonderful!

Loved it........2007-03-21

I loved the book and have shared it with others.
What a neat way to explain the seasons.

Get this book - great moral of the story for all ages!.......2007-03-20

If you love children's books, it doesn't matter what age you are...you will love this one! Don't miss out. I bought 20 copies for my best friend, my Mom, all my nephews and nieces and a even one for my school library! In this world where collaboration is the key to success, this book teaches that lesson in a warm, entertaining and wonderfully illustrated way. I hope the author writes another one soon!

A charming, entertaining, and recommended picturebook.......2006-10-08

"There's A Season For All" is written by Sammy Shu and illustrated by Carl Cone for the delight and enjoyment of young children "There's A Season For All" is the story of the fairies who live in the kingdom of Tween Land. In particular, the story of four fairy princesses (representing the four seasons) who inherited the responsibility for controlling the environment. But when they all tried to exercise their powers at once, only chaos ensued. Eventually the fairy sisters worked out a way to take turns, beginning with Winter (because she was the oldest), followed in turn by Spring, Summer, and Fall. "There is A Season For All" is a charming, entertaining, and recommended picturebook which entertainingly presents an underlying message of sharing and taking turns to accomplish great things.

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Sammy's Season

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Sports Illustrated Home Run Heroes: Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and a Season for the Ages

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Sports Illustrated Home Run Heroes: Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and a Season for the Ages
Merrell Noden
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THE TERMINATOR'S TERM, TOTALLY RECALLED!

The real story of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's first one hundred days in office comes to life in vivid two-color photographs and completely fictitious captions. Governor Arnold tells the story of Schwarzenegger's historic first days in office, in pictures that are evocative, dramatic, and sometimes truly frightening -- especially the ones in which he is wearing no shirt.

New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz, creator of the award-winning website BorowitzReport.com, travels to Sacramento for an up-close, exclusive look at a man with a mission: to reshape California in his own monstrous, bulging-veined image. It's a book for history buffs...about the buffest man in history! Governor Arnold is guaranteed to make the Governator stop groping women...and start groping for superlatives!

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Arnold Rocks!.......2004-04-20

I have never laughed so hard at a book - the photo of Governor Arnold introducing "Casual Fridays" to Sacramento is worth the price alone! An unbelievably inspired concept, perfectly executed. Two thumbs way up.

Triumph of the Absurd.......2004-04-20

No one captures the absurdity of politics better than Andy Borowitz, and he has done it again with GOVERNOR ARNOLD. I have had this book on my desk for the past three months and have had it stolen about five times! Once people start reading it they can't put it down - and neither will you. Highly, highly recommended.

Borowitz at his best.......2004-04-20

I am a HUGE fan of Andy Borowitz from hs work in The New Yorker and also his website. Governor Arnold is a must-have for Borowitz fans. It's typical of his work - side-splittingly hilarious AND concise. It's a quick read, to be sure, but you'll read it again and again. (PS - I don't think Arnold has ever looked in better shape!!!)

You Don't Have To Be a Democrat.......2004-04-20

I have voted Republican my entire life, and even voted for Arnold, which is why my brother gave me this book (to poke fun at me). Well, I laughed and laughed and I have given it to many of my Republican friends. The combination of the funny pictures (especially the Conan era ones) and the captions is irresistible.

Tedious, Unfunny.......2004-04-17

Good political humorists write in such a way that readers will laugh, irrespective of their political affiliation. Michael Moore and PJ O'Rourke are examples of such writers. Unfortunately, Borowitz lacks the tact, wit, and sense of humor to write true political satire. His attempts at humor usually elicit groans unless you already agree with his shrill left-wing point of view, in which case you're only reading to reinforce your narrow point of view. Borowitz's humor is neither intelligent nor thought-provoking. If the book actually zeroed in on the Governor's shortcomings rather than reduce him to the simple-minded stereotypes that are common among the intellectually uninitiated Left, he might have actually had some fodder for political humor. The book is boring- a waste of time and money.

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This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on cultural forms and processes in Israel, Palestine, and the refugee camps of the Arab Middle East. The contributors consider how Palestinian and Israeli popular culture influences and is influenced by political, economic, social, and historical processes in the region. At the same time, they follow the circulation of Palestinian and Israeli cultural commodities and imaginations across borders and checkpoints and within the global marketplace.

The volume is interdisciplinary, including the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, political scientists, ethnomusicologists, and Americanist and literary studies scholars. Contributors examine popular music of the Palestinian resistance, ethno-racial “passing” in Israeli cinema, Arab-Jewish rock, Euro-Israeli tourism to the Arab Middle East, Internet communities in the Palestinian diaspora, café culture in early-twentieth-century Jerusalem, and more. Together, they suggest new ways of conceptualizing Palestinian and Israeli political culture.

Contributors. Livia Alexander, Carol Bardenstein, Elliott Colla, Amy Horowitz, Laleh Khalili, Mary Layoun, Mark LeVine, Joseph Massad, Melani McAlister, Ilan Pappé, Rebecca L. Stein, Ted Swedenburg, Salim Tamari

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An excellent book on Israel/Palestine.......2007-01-28

rather than focus oh names & dates and the usual fare, this book is a great resource on Israel/Palestine and gives you information hard to find elsewhere, whether it is an analysis of Joe Sacco's artwork, Palestinian films, or a look back in time to the old city of Jerusalem pre-Brittish mandate. A must read!

A terrifically thought-provoking collection of essays!.......2006-07-20

This book contains some of the very best scholarship currently available on the cultural politics of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Carol Bardenstein's essay on the implications of cross-casting and "passing" in Israeli and Palestinian films alone is worth the price of admission!

Disgusting.......2005-08-14

Sure, there's plenty of fascinating material on Levantine popular culture in this book. But I think that too much of it is simply a disgusting paean to racist attacks on human rights, with sneering taunts directed at any attempts by Israelis to protect their rights.

Yes, there are discussions of Israelis being thrilled by the prospect of finally being allowed to visit nearby Petra, on the Jordanian side of the border. And there is even an admission that it is "preposterous" for an Egyptian video to imply that European Jews "deserved to suffer genocide" and that Arab suffering is the result "of Jewish existence."

Yes, there's quite a bit of material that a scholar could find useful. And there has to be a place even for books that support racism and attack human rights. But the place for my copy of this one is my trash can.

The contested terrain of popular culture.(Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture)(Book review): An article from: Art Journal

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Chess is Life

Young Fischer

A Book For All Chess Players - Good Read

superb ! excpet couple of chapters

Pretty Good Book

Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess
Fred Waitzkin
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Searching for Bobby Fischer

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Searching for Bobby Fischer is the story of Fred Waitzkin and his son Josh, from the moment six-year-old Josh first sits down at a chessboard until he competes for the national championship. Drawn into the insular, international network of chess, they must also navigate the difficult waters of their own relationship. All the while, Waitzkin wonders about and searches for the elusive Bobby Fischer, whose myth still dominates the chess world and profoundly affects Waitzkin's dreams for his son.

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Chess is Life.......2006-01-13

Searching for Bobby Fischer is a skillfully woven set of vignettes that tell two stories, really. One, of course, is the story of his and his son Josh's discovery of the boy's precocious chess talent, the other the story of the chess environment in the US and the effect of Bobby Fischer's legacy on US chess.

Reading the other reviews I find it hard to understand what some people complain about in the book. For instance, the Russian trip had great importance, both as a contrast to the chess community in the US, and because it was a formative event in the life of the main subject of the book. How do you just leave something like that out?

The actual "search" near the end of the book is truly a beautiful, bittersweet interlude that serves to put under the glaring light of truth the amorphous, romanticized legend of Bobby Fischer. It's a dirty, confusing little search that goes nowhere, and is a telling metaphor for the life course of the once legendary champion.

One important comparison to the movie is the recounting of the Nationals that Josh finally wins. While what they put in the movie was exciting, to me it was nothing like the vibrant, tense denoument in the book. The come from behind save Josh pulled out in real life is the stuff of little legends all on its own.

This is a thoroughly enjoyable book, front to back, poignant, with the ring of truth on every page. I can't recommend enough to both chess players and non-players alike.

Young Fischer.......2006-01-09

Ever since the elusive disappearance of chess genius Bobby Fischer, who beat Russian Boris Spassky in 1972 for the world championship, the only American to do so, parents all over the United States have wondered if their little sons and daughters would someday have the potential to be the next Fischer. Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin is the true story of Fred and his son Josh. In New York City, the only place for serious chess players in the US, Josh discovered chess one day in Washington Square Park. Soon after he began playing he was pronounced a prodigy and taken under the wing of one of the best chess teachers in the country, Bruce Pandolfini. Fred is infatuated with his son's potential and gets drawn into the crazy and obsessive world of chess. The book chronicles the years from when Josh begins playing until he wins the national championship. Along the way Fred travels to Moscow to watch the long awaited match of Karpov and Kasparov, two chess titans, and opposite sides of the same coin. Fred realizes the truth of what being a professional player means and how hard it is the US. He's confused about his longing for Josh to be a great player and how he obsesses so much over it. Deep down he knows Josh is not as good as Fischer, and even if he was how can you compete with these Russian players who are exposed to the game forty to fifty hours a week? Throughout this journey Fred discovers both the glory and failure in being a chess parent of a talented player, and shares his worries, fears, and hopes for his son. I highly recommend this groundbreaking story.

This book captures all the feelings and emotions of being the parent of a precocious child. On one hand, you want them to live a well-rounded life. But on the other hand, your thoughts drift to untold glory and tournaments to be won. You want the child to study and work hard and it's easy to get caught up in immediate results. Then you worry your kid's not having fun or you've pushed them too hard. Especially for chess, a parent has to wonder, why do I care so much about my child's gift, I've seen professional chess players and the dreadful lives they lead. Even the very best players cope with miserable conditions. Unlike a tennis prodigy, for a chess player there's no pot of gold at the end. But week after week these parents take their brilliant kids to tournaments and spend a weekend holed up in a stuffy hotel. They cannot understand their feelings or why they do this, but what if their son or daughter is the next Bobby Fischer?

Searching for Bobby Fischer is not only about chess. It describes the delicate relation between Fred and his son. At first, Josh is a genius. He can do no wrong and wins everything. Kids tremble when they play him. At the nationals, he'll be ranked number one. He is unstoppable. And then Josh loses at the nationals to a little kid with a much lower rating. He crushes Josh in less than twenty minutes. Fred and Bruce cannot understand what went wrong. Fred is confused and wonders why he pushes his son so hard. For six months Josh doesn't want to play and Fred fears this is the end. He feels awful about liking his son more when he wins and thinking how boring Josh's life would be without chess. Soon Fred and Bruce realize what needs to be done and the following year Josh wins the national championship. Fred starts to begin understanding the feelings he has about Josh and chess.

The chapters about Moscow and world championship match between Karpov and Kasparov are fascinating. Karpov is loved by the Soviet Union and has many powerful political connections. Kasparov is more the rebel, outspoken against Karpov and the government. Half of the battle for the title is political and psychological. Rumors that Karpov would poison Kasparov at any cost abound. It is well known in a previous match Karpov employed a hypnotist to sit in the third row and during the game hypnotize his opponent. Kasparov argues bitterly against Karpov having his team of seconds and trainers offer him drinks during the game. He says the drink could contain a message, such as they found a winning line and he should adjourn the game (in those days adjournments for very long games were allowed, meaning the game would be stopped and continued in a few hours), or a long struggle was ahead and he shouldn't drink anything to make him crash. Also, people say Karpov would regularly bribe Kasparov's seconds and trainers to give his team their opening secrets or just rob Kasparov of a critical trainer. Due to his smaller team, instead of preparing Kasparov would have to get on the phone to block Karpov's latest move. Just for the record, Kasparov won the match after six brutal months.

Searching for Bobby Fischer is a fast and thoughtful read. Fred movingly conveys his hopes and dreams for his son, and opens a world up that many people didn't even know existed. A truly good book.

A.M.

A Book For All Chess Players - Good Read.......2005-08-24

This book has the championship chess presence like "The Queen's Gambit" by Tevis and the scholastic excitement of "The Chess Team" by Sawaski - The others are fiction, but what sets this book (SFBF) apart is that it is a real story. However, the title is a hair misleading. This book really has nothing at all to do with the real Bobby Fischer (Former World Chess Champion) - but rather about chess prodigy and future chess grandmaster Josh Waitzkin.

The book itself is very much different from the movie and although the movie was very well done and one of my favorites of all time, the book is outstanding and should be read even if you watched the movie. If you play chess or like to teach chess, this book is highly useful for experience. The whole work just flows nicely and you get excited for Josh on his trials and tribulations. It is a quality book, with interesting experiences and I highly recommend it to all.

superb ! excpet couple of chapters.......2005-07-15

superb book!

postives:

1. insights into everything it covers
chess world, inights into a chess parent
2. smooth reading
3. the suspense in the last chapter itself is worth 5 starts
4. honest expressions about his feelings and his ideas
about others
5. the expression of the dilemma within him (or any chess
parent) on where this is headed.

negative:

1. couple of chapters seemed boring (irrelevant) at times,
but that could be me looking to get ahead with story
of him and his prodigal son.

Pretty Good Book.......2005-06-17

I read this book, and I think the movie is better. This book is about the father of a young boy named Josh Waitzkin, who is a chess prodigy. I think the main problem in this book is that it doesn't talk about Josh as much as it should. Also, I think there were just a few inappropriate things that didn't need to be written. Its a pretty good book.

Note on Josh Waitzkin

It's sad that Josh Waitzlin quit chess. I think he quit because everyone thought he was going to be the next bobby fischer, and deep down he knew he wasn't. He was an International Master at age 16 while Bobby Fischer was a Grandmaster at age 16. The even more sad thing was in a newspaper article, he said he would never quit because he would never want to think about what he could have been. Also, in his book Josh Waitzkin's attacking chess, he wrote that when a prodigy grows up, they may hit a wall. Some people may say he never had it, some may say he never will. But the prodigy should keep going. Anyway, he quit at a ration in the low 2400's.

Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess

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Windows 2000 Commands Pocket Reference fully documents the Windows 2000 console interface (that is, the complete set of command-line instructions the operating system understands). With coverage of Windows 2000 in its out-of-the-box form as well as of the operating system with the Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit installed, this book will prove invaluable to system administrators writing batch files to automate work. It also will please those power users and administrators wishing to learn how to do work faster than Windows 2000's graphical user interface (GUI) will allow.

This book represents the first published foray into Windows 2000 by Æleen Frisch, whose work on Essential Windows NT System Administration is highly regarded. Frisch doesn't disappoint, having apparently put into this tiny booklet the same care and attention to accuracy that characterizes her work on Windows 2000's predecessor. With a glance at any command's entry (the entries appear in alphabetical order), the reader can determine what the command is for, what its generic syntax is, what each option and argument means, and whether the command works only with the resource kit installed. Future editions will be better if they include statements of function in their indexes in addition to command names (e.g., the task "trace IP path" in addition to the command "tracert"), but what's here is extremely valuable. --David Wall

Topics covered: All commands supported by the Windows 2000 console interface (a.k.a. the command line), with and without the resource kit installed. This is unadorned, man-page-style syntax and usage documentation.

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Windows administrators can accomplish many of their routine tasks much more quickly by using the command line (similar to the command line of DOS or Unix-based systems) than by going through the graphical user interface that most users associate with Windows. Windows 20000 Commands Pocket Reference documents the Windows command mode. It's designed for system administrators, but will also be valuable to many users. It includes most available Windows 2000 commands, as well as the most useful system administration command-line utilities from the Resource Kit. Weeded out of this book are Windows commands and command options that are obscure, obsolete, broken, unacceptably insecure, or frankly inadvisable, as well a few special-purpose classes of commands. Whenever several utilities perform essentially identical tasks, we include only the best of them. Commands are grouped according to their purpose and function; within a group, commands are arranged alphabetically. Options for each command are grouped by function and ordered by importance. The Windows 2000 Commands Pocket Reference complements Windows 2000 Administration in a Nutshell by conveying the kind of no-nonsense, boiled-down information typical of O'Reilly's highly successful companion Pocket Reference series. It's a valuable, concise reference to Windows 2000 commands and command-line utilities.

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Got Scripts?.......2003-12-01

If you have to do scripts for development or testing then you will want this book. Excellent little book that you can easily carry with you when you go to the lab or anywhere. Easy to use with sections according to command functions.

Well worth the price. It is packed with useful commands and options. As in all other O'Reilly books I have bought it gets used regularly by my friends at work as well. Clear and concise explanation of the command functions.

For what this is..........2003-01-20

it is a very useful book, particularly for admins that have only used command line for DOS utilities. For those folks that don't have resource kit that isn't the author's concern, get after your employer to get it for you. The resource kit commands are well represented and marked, and the resource kit tools can be downloaded for free...The book is well organized and has good supplemental information. And it fits in my back pocket.

Good things come in small packages - great reference!.......2002-07-25

Like they say - good things come in small packages. This one is something I carry in my laptop bag all the time. It's very handy, covers a lot of ResKit tools, and if you don't belong to the "point-and-click" school of Windows administration, this is a must-have.

What this book is: a handy pocket reference to a lot of commands that a lot of sysadmins are unaware of. What it's not: a complete reference to Windows 2000 commands and scripting.

You have to understand the author's limitations. For a very thorough or detailed overview, I'd probably look up the web/TechNet or other resources if I need.

For this size of a book, I think Frisch did a great job. It's a pretty good investment that can get you very quick RoI if you are in the scripting mode.

Bharat Suneja
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Handy book to have if you enjoy working at the command-line.......2002-04-25

This book has a lot of great information on tools that you can use when working from the command line in Windows. Many of the commands mentioned are actually tools from the Resource Kit, rather than native to Windows 2000, so that was kind of discouraging. On the whole, the book is useful to have, but it would have been nice to have more detail on some of the NET commands and using them in scripts.

Good, but could be better.......2001-11-29

(...), there's a lot of stuff from the Resource Kit in here, but as you can download the resource kit from the MS web site (make sure you have a FAST connection), I don't see too much of a problem with that.

My problem with it is that there are still commands that are missing and information on each command is a bit sparse. Granted, this is a "pocket reference", but I've seen more information in a number of other O'Reilly pocket books, so I know it can be done. Had I looked it over in a store first, I don't think I would have bought it. But since I have it, I do get some use out of it.

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