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Bestselling author Andrew McLean completely updates his trusted classic to give you the latest in real estate investment information
Bestselling author Andrew James McLean returns with a timely revision of his complete guide to buying and managing apartment buildings, town houses, and single-family houses. If you're searching for the best way to earn big returns on a modest investment, this invaluable resource provides a proven road map to the entire process, from making the first acquisition and showing and renting units to pyramiding investments and retiring on real estate holdings.
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Informative.......2006-02-26
Good book. This along with a couple of Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad's" series books, particularly "Who Took My Money" by Kiyosaki himself and "The ABC's of Real Estate Investing" by Ken MdElroy, will prepare you for your entry into the real estate investing world with a much better chance of success.
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For every investor searching for the best way to earn big returns on a modest investment, here's the most complete, up-to-date guide to buying and managing apartment buildings, town houses, or single-family houses. This useful resource also includes advice on:
- Evaluating specific properties
- Locating your "diamond in the rough"
- Negotiating your purchase
- Financing your real estate holding
- Overcoming inflation and taxes
- Using success-proven strategies to generate income
From making the first acquisition and showing and renting units to pyramiding investments and retiring on real estate holding, this is an invaluable guide to making money-wise and profitable investments. Andrew James McLean is the author of The Complete Guide to Real Estate Loans, Real Estate: The Ultimate Handbook, and Foreclosures: How to Profitably Invest in Distressed Real Estate.
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The Complete Dirty Laundry Comics collects the two issues of Dirty Laundry Comics as well as other comics that were collaborations between Robert Crumb and his wife Aline Kominsky-Crumb. Against the backdrop of the wild 1970s, the Crumbs appear as themselves in autobiographical vignettes. They wander through various situations ranging from the banal (Aline complaining that she doesn't draw as well as Robert) to the extreme (Robert shoving Aline's face into a pool of vomit). While both of these artists share an almost unrelenting frankness, they each have unique personalities and art styles.
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A street-wise child of the city.......2003-07-27
Jules Feiffer was a cartoonist who became famous in the 1960s for his work in New York's Village Voice and Hugh Hefner's Playboy.
This first volume of his Collected Works brings together his earliest work from 1949 and 1950 based on a child character Clifford, who predates both Peanuts and Dennis The Menace. It is a wonderful book, not only for its early form of Feiffer's distinctive humor, but also for a look at cartooning in the post-war years following WWII.
You won't find in Clifford the sharp political satire that marks Feiffer's later work. You will find a street-wise child of the city who will charm you with his antics.
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- Great book, one of Crichton's best
- One of his first and one of his best, this adventure is sure to stay with you...
- Silly Plot and Bland Characters
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If you saw the 1995 film adaptation of this Crichton thriller, somebody owes you an apology. While you're waiting for that to happen, try reading the vastly more intelligent novel on which the movie was based. The broad lines of the plot remain the same: A research team deep in the jungle disappears after a mysterious and grisly gorilla attack. A subsequent team, including a sign-language-speaking simian named Amy, follows the original team's tracks only to be subjected to more mysterious and grisly gorilla attacks. If you can look past the breathless treatment of '80s technology, like voice-recognition software and 256K RAM modules (the book was written in 1980), you'll find the same smart use of science and edge-of-your-seat suspense shared by Crichton's other work. --Paul Hughes
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The legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj have seen an eight-person field exhibition die. After startling discoveries, a new expedition is sent back into the Congo--its mission, to descend into the secret world where the only way back out may be through the grisliest death....
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Great book, one of Crichton's best.......2007-09-27
This truly was one of Michael Crichtons best novels. Alhtough superbly written, it did lack some of the technical intricacies of the usual Michael Crichton novel. As far as the book being family friendly, it didn't do too bad either, getting a T-rating from www.evalbooks.com I think the movie got a similar rating.
One of his first and one of his best, this adventure is sure to stay with you..........2007-06-14
`Congo' is one the most fulfilling of Crichton's novels, giving the reader quite a bit to look forward to. It opens brilliantly with a savage Gorilla attack that leaves members of a research team dead. It's in these first few pages that the reader is hooked, and that continues to work throughout the novel, Michael never giving the reader a reason to put the book down. For those of your who have seen the critically panned film adaptation and have thus decided to steer clear of the novel as a result, I urge you to reconsider. As I have said before, Hollywood just doesn't seem to be able to do Crichton justice. His writing in general screams for the big screen but other than a few golden nuggets (the first Jurassic Park film for starters) Hollywood in general has done nothing but botch Crichton's brilliant work.
That said, the book does a much grander job of fleshing out its characters as well as its surroundings. I've come to believe that Crichton can, with a few pen strokes, paint me a much more vivid picture than supplied by the Universal Studios. The plot revolves around a research group sent into the Congo with the purpose of finding diamonds that can help with advancing technology. Yes, Crichton slips in and out of describing in great detail what this all means, and that does mean that we are not only getting grade A science fiction but a science lesson atop it, but it's all good.
The action is brilliantly paced, as is the balance of the novel, and it delivers every bit of the mastery we've come to expect from this famed writer. While it's dated, being written in 1980, and the technology may seem a bit, oh I don't know, lame to our current standards of advancement, Crichton still writes with such insistence and determination that it's all forgivable and even entertaining to gage what was considered advanced not to many years ago.
Michael Crichton will probably never stop writing, he's just too good at it, but I find with each book that I read (I will admit that I have some catching up to do) that it's his earliest work that entices me the most. `Congo' was the third novel I read by Crichton and it's one of the few that I remember often. I encourage any fan of science fiction who hasn't yet to give it a try, and any fan of Crichton's latest work who wants to see where it all began, take a wonderful trip back in time with this brilliantly framed jungle adventure that is sure to be an expedition to remember.
Silly Plot and Bland Characters.......2007-06-04
I've read a few novels by Michael Crichton, and CONGO is easily the weakest of the bunch. The plot of this book isn't particularly interesting (killer Gorillas in the African rainforest?) and the characters are bland and one-dimensional. The only truly likable protagonist is Amy, the gorilla that can do sign-language. It's a bad sign when the only character you care for in a novel is non-human.
As with any Crichton book, there's a lot of interesting factual information contained in CONGO. But Chrichton makes little effort to integrate this data into the story. Instead, he does an information dump every 10-15 pages or so, which stops the story dead in its tracks. It also doesn't help that most of the technology in this book is dramatically dated (no big surprise, since it was written in 1980). The result is a slow-paced, largely uninvolving reading experience.
In short, I didn't feel much excitement or suspense reading CONGO. My advice is to skip this novel, and try Crichton's far superior later work, like SPHERE. You might also want to consider the work of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, who write similar types of thillers.
Lasers, satellites, laptops... 1979?.......2007-05-24
I just want to say four short things about this book.
Firstly, I loved all the information from the author's references. Obviously, he did a lot of research for the book. It was very detailed, informative and applicable to the story. If the non-fiction part of a piction book is better than the fiction, it often spells trouble ahead.
Secondly, this being my first Crichton novel, I can't base a review compared to his other books. Perhaps he writes like this for all his books. Regardless, it's either I like it or I don't.
Thirdly, I kept asking myself why the story took place in 1979. The technology presented throughout the book was too far advanced for the same year. Why didn't the author just set the story 10-20 years in the near-future?
Lastly, the technology was the first part of the book I based the implausibility (or far-fetchedness) for the rest of the story. It was when the story gets into gorillas, temples, volcanoes, diamonds and ancient culture that I became distanced from the plot. By the end of the book, I was expecting anything spectacular to happen and just wanted it to end.
A Rumble In The Jungle.......2007-03-29
"Congo" is the second book that I've read by Michael Crichton. The first being "Timeline." It's been quite a few years since I first read that book and I remember enjoying it very much. I failed to see the movie for it and really don't care to, especially now. When the film version of "Congo" hit the screens a few years ago, I enjoyed it thoroughly. It reminded me of all the old jungle flicks from the golden age of cinema. However, now having read the book, I feel somewhat cheated by its celluloid counterpart. This book is so much more engaging that it really is a shame how the movie fails to do it justice.
While the core of the story, a team is sent out to find diamonds key to technological advances and they use a young grad student and his signing gorilla as cover to sneak into Africa, is still there, the book contains elements not even mentioned in the film. We get to know the expedition party a lot better in the book. We also have a lot more conflicts and meetings with the locals such as Pygmies, Kigani, and General Muguru and his men. Also, the gray gorillas are given a nice and complete treatment. I felt like I knew them better in this book than most of the human characters in the film.
The film added quite a few things. For one, the gorilla, Amy, doesn't wander around in a boxy sign translator. Only Peter Elliot joins the group's escapade to the Congo, not his assistant as in the movie. The grisly death of the first team is found in the movie, but the book mentions nothing of Dr. Karen Ross having any type of relationship with one of the original team's members. In fact, she comes across as very frigid and uninterested in finding a boyfriend in the jungle. Tim Curry's character, while funny in the film, is non-existent here.
The book moves at a very quick pace. Even when Crichton goes off on a class lecture about gorilla behavior or the advanced (for 1980) state of communications, he still manages to hold the reader's attention.
Overall, this is a wonderful jungle thriller. If you enjoy authors such as Clive Cussler, you're sure to enjoy Crichton. His writing is intelligent, fun, and easy to digest even though it's full of factual information that, in textbook form, would be wretchedly boring.
Highly recommended.
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Making of Congo
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Congo promises to be the motion picture event of the year, and The Making of Congo captures all the action, adventure, and suspense that viewers will see brought to life on the screen. The film version of Michael Crichton's classic, bestselling novel will feature the most realistic creatures ever seen: the gorillas of Congo, including the mischievous and lovable Amy. Here is a behind-the-scenes, completely illustrated look at every phase of this monumental project, including:
--The story of Congo, with insights from Michael Crichton on the screenplay he wrote with John Patrick Shanley
--Production design--more than two hundred visuals from storyboards to set designs to photographs of the film in progress
--The gorillas--how they were constructed and brought to life
--Highlights of the production--from Day One to wrap, including first-hand accounts from the set
--Exclusive interviews with director Frank Marshall, producer Kathleen Kennedy, creature wizard Stan Winston, and the stars of the movie
--The secrets behind the stunning visual effects, explained by the artisans and technicians from Industrial Light & Magic
--And much more!
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In the white-hot debate over guns and gun control in America, there is one fact on which both sides in this increasingly polarized conflict can agree: Americans love their guns. 73 million Americans own guns. This translates to 1 gun owner out of every 4 citizens, many of whom, to account for the 250 million weapons currently in circulation, own several. While these facts are undisputed, a related but different question is endlessly contested: why do Americans so love their guns? Broadly speaking, what exactly is the appeal of the gun? In this important work, Abigail Kohn immerses herself in the world of "shooters." Emphasizing that not all owners are necessarily enthusiasts, Kohn dispenses with the knee-jerk dogma and rhetoric that has too often passed for reportage to travel directly to the heart of American gun culture. Frequenting gun shops and shooting ranges, and devoting particular attention to those whose interest in weaponry extends beyond the casual, she captures in finegrained and often entertaining, yet always humane, detail how gun owners actually think and feel about their guns. Through her conversations--with cowboy action shooters at a regional match, sport shooters, hunters, with shooters of all ages and races--we hear of the "savage beauty" of a beautifully crafted long gun, of the powerful historical import owners attach to their guns, of the sense of empowerment that comes with shooting skill, and the visceral thrill of discharging a dangerous weapon. Kohn convincingly brings out the myths, norms, and beliefs of gun ownership, stressing how values such as individualism, toughness, and liberty are intricately linked with the gun and exploring how these core values connect pro-gun ideology to wider cultural and political concerns. Cutting through the cliches that link gun ownership with violent, criminal subcultures and portray shooters as "gun nuts" or potential terrorists, Abigail Kohn provides us with a lively and untainted portrait of American gun enthusiasts.
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Must read for shooters and non-shooters........2004-06-14
This is a great book and long overdue. As a Marine Corps combat veteran and ardent handgun enthusiast I shoot because I enjoy it and because I believe in self-defense. Unlike many of the people I shoot with I am very liberal politically and even though I am a member of the NRA I don't care for alot of their rhetoric. I knew there was a middle ground to being pro or anti-gun and this book illustrates that perfectly. Highly recommended whatever side of the debate you are on but especially if like most Americans you are in the middle ground of this issue.
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Maximize on the power of WebSphere Portal to build and deploy portals
If you use, develop, manage, or administer WebSphere applications, you are probably already building or managing Web portals–or well on your way to doing so. With this comprehensive book, you’ll discover how these portals bring together important functions such as integration, presentation, organization, and customizations–functions needed in every complex application environment. The unparalleled author team of experts offers you in-depth insight on mastering the complex aspects of WebSphere Portal, walking you through every facet from installing to deployment.
Mastering IBM WebSphere Portal focuses on not only the portal as a server, but also how it interacts with components such as LDAP servers, enterprise applications, mobile devices, and even other portals. The authors begin with an introduction to the WebSphere product family and then explore such topics as:
- Installing and customizing the portal, as well as migrating existing environments to version 5
- Defining portlets, pages, and user interface properties
- Applying personalization, collaboration, search, and document and content management within WebSphere Portal v. 5
- Using high availability, security and single sign-on, identity management, Web services, and enterprise applications
- Setting up a portal in a high-availability environment and integrating external applications into WebSphere Portal
The companion Web site, www.wiley.com/compbooks/ben-natan, presents all the code in the book as well as links to vendors and sources of information pertaining to WebSphere Portal.
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Portals represent a booming IT market, and enterprises that build portals are making six-figure-plus investments in software, creating a huge demand for information on these products IBMs WebSphere Portal more than doubled its market share from 2000 to 2001, making it the current leader in this field Addresses the full life cycle of portals, touching upon all issues that users will encounter in a real enterprise environment Each chapter features sample code and detailed, step-by-step instructions for all procedures, addressing the latest software release Ron Ben-Natan is a leading expert on WebSphere and has written several books and articles on the subject Companion Web site offers additional information and sample code
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Actually, Better Than Average.......2007-05-11
This book is intended for four audiences: portal developers who will be working with WebSphere Portal Server, portal administrators, portal implementation specialists, and enterprise architects. Since I am a business analyst doing QA on a WebSphere Portal implementation project, I have skipped most of the instructions on how to install, how to access functions, etc. I'll leave that for others to review.
I find the book valuable as a way to understand portals in general and WebSphere Portal in particular. For me, the chapters on LDAP and mobile rendering were the most useful.
But the book is irritating, too. For example, there are lots of definitions of key concepts: very valuable. But they're scattered throughout the text: no glossary. Sometimes one of the authors will refer to the "user," and it's unclear whether he's referring to the end user of the portal or to the content creator: both are WebSphere users. Also, there's a good bit of Web Services in WebSphere, but no real "under the hood" discussion that might help the reader place WPS in clear relation to service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Much of my irritation stems from the editing. (I've worked many years as a technical editor.) At least two of the authors are speakers of English as a foreign language. Nothing wrong with that--if they get good copy editing. But Wiley has outsourced the copy editing. Different editors work on different chapters, they're probably in different countries, and their employer hasn't set down (or just not enforced) editorial guidelines and standards. As a result, we readers aren't getting the quality we deserve.
Use a redbook instead.......2006-04-22
This book doesn't even come close to its title. While there is some useful information, it appears to be obvious that this book was slapped together in a rush. Chapter 18 ends abruptly. Chapters 19, 20 don't even exist - in fact based on the table of contents pages 354-403 are missing.
And don't bother trying to find these pages on the "companion" book site. They don't exist there. You have to beg the publisher to get a copy.
Honestly, not worth the time - try downloading a free IBM Redbook instead.
No Depth. .......2005-10-25
The contents of this book would better be found in technical documents such as user guides, architecture guides, and admin guides. That some reviewers report that this may be the only place to find some of this information says more about the paucity of good IBM documentation (or perhaps just the poor organisation of the IBM portal support site) than about the quality of the book.
This book is fairly limited to the "To save your data, click 'save'" brand of instructions (I thought Microsoft owned the patent on this technique?). Since many many portal configuration pages are self-explanatory, much of this instruction is wasted. And aside from a brief foray into Portlet development, which is a not-too-bad treatment for a neophyte, there is nothing for a developer.
Finally, the name is misleading. Certainly, there is nothing in this book that could possibly lead to "mastery" of the IBM WebSphere Portal.
Don't waste your money.
Best portal book.......2005-04-30
Best book for learning WebSphere portal (and I have them all). The redbook is also useful but this book is the first one you should read.
This is a must-have for WebSphere Portal teams.......2005-04-13
This book is packed full of clear and concise definitions of how WebSphere Portal works, along with step-by-step tutorials that fianlly put everything in one place. If you need to install, configure, design, develop, debug, troubleshoot and rollout a Portal 5.0.2 environment, this is an essential tool.
My personal book is annotated, dog-eared and full of sticky notes, and has proven an invluable asset.
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