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Career Counseling: Process, Issues, and Techniques (2nd Edition)
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Mary J. Heppner, Joseph A. Johnston Norman C. Gysbers
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Are immigrants squeezing Americans out of the work force? Or is competition wth foreign products imported by the United States an even greater danger to those employed in some industries? How do wages and unions fare in foreign-owned firms? And are the media's claims about the number of illegal immigrants misleading?

Prompted by the growing internationalization of the U.S. labor market since the 1970s, contributors to Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market provide an innovative and comprehensive analysis of the labor market impact of the international movements of people, goods, and capital. Their provocative findings are brought into perspective by studies of two other major immigrant-recipient countries, Canada and Australia. The differing experiences of each nation stress the degree to which labor market institutions and economic policies can condition the effect of immigration and trade on economic outcomes
Contributors trace the flow of immigrants by comparing the labor market and migration behavior of individual immigrants, explore the effects of immigration on wages and employment by comparing the composition of the work force in local labor markets, and analyze the impact of trade on labor markets in different industries. A unique data set was developed especially for this study—ranging from an effort to link exports/imports with wages and employment in manufacturing industries, to a survey of illegal Mexican immigrants in the San Diego area—which will prove enormously valuable for future research.

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Migration, Unemployment and Trade focuses on the issues of migration, welfare and unemployment in a trade and development framework. Several chapters of the book analyze the implications of internal labor mobility in a model designed to highlight its implications for regional welfare, urban unemployment, rural-urban dichotomy and structural adjustment. An important innovation in this work is the disaggregation of the economy and the use of separate utility functions to highlight non-homogeneity of preferences. The book also deals with international mobility of factors in different frameworks. In particular it concentrates on the highly emotive issue of legal and illegal migration. Thus this work incorporates interesting and important features of labor economics and factor mobility into trade and distortion theory.

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The garment industry is one of the world's largest industries, yet there are few sustained examinations of its importance to the global economy and the very vital role that immigrant entrepreneurship has played. Focusing on the garment industry in seven world cities Paris, London, Birmingham, Amsterdam, New York, Miami and Los Angeles this book tackles the complex relationship between the development of immigrant entrepreneurship and the shift to global, post-industrial urban economies. The interconnections among immigrant entrepreneurs, social networks, market conditions and regulatory matters are thoroughly explored in a comparative way. Starting from the idea that general social, economic and political processes manifest themselves in ever changing, historically specific shapes, the contributors offer intriguing insights into the dynamics of entrepreneurial management against the backdrop of such processes as: the differential spatial impact of economic restructuring; the significance of governance at various levels; and the conditional use of social capital. With contributions from leading experts in the field, this is a must for those wishing to supplement their knowledge in globalization, labour, economics, immigration and the garment industry broadly speaking.

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Change Your Life With Humor: Create a Happier, Healthier, and Funnier - You!
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This book will help you create a Happier, Healthier and FUNNIER -- YOU! Learn how to:
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3. Lighten-up

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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hong Kong cinema reached new heights in productivity and technical expertise - though not necessarily attaining a corresponding pinnacle of quality in terms of script and content. After 1992, the film industry began a period of decline, victim of rising ticket prices, lack of new stars, proliferation of pirated VCDs, and strong competition from American blockbusters. Ironically, the decline coincided with Hollywood's "discovery" of Hong Kong's cinematic talent and a growing international awareness of the miracle of Hong Kong movies. Paul Fonoroff, one of Hong Kong's leading movie critics, has compiled 600 of his highly personal reviews from the last golden age of Hong Kong cinema into this easy-to-use volume for scholars, movie buffs and Hong Kong film aficionados alike. "At the Hong Kong Movies" is the indispensable reference, giving you a unique, inside view of the films of Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, John Woo, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh and hundreds of others, all from the pen of one of the few Westerners to become an integral part of the Hong Kong movie world - on screen and off.

* Indispensable reference to the golden age of Hong Kong movies
* Comprehensive and easy-to-use
* Reviews from one of Hong Kong's premier film critics
* Inside view of the films of Jackie Chan, John Woo, Michelle Yeoh and many more
* Ideal for scholars, movie buffs and Hong Kong film addicts alike

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Every Hong Kong Movie Lover Should Have One.......2003-07-29

I found the book extemely useful as a reference, particularly since the credits are in both English and Chinese. This is especially useful to movie fans over here in Singapore, where most HK movie fans would know the titles only in Chinese and often there is little or no relationship between the movie's Chinese and English titles. As for the reviews themselves, I found them interesting, critical, and even when I didn't agree with them I felt I learned something from a different point of view.

Great Reference Book for HK Movie Fans.......2003-07-25

This book really tells it like it is, and is comprehensive to boot. Fonoroff is highly critical but he supports his opinions well. It's refreshing to hear such honest opinions and not the usual "rah rah" "isn't it wonderful" that so many Asian movie addicts feel obligated to dish out. Fonoroff is also lavish with his praise when he finds a movie he respects, which admittedly is rare. He also likes the trashy guilty pleasure flicks. I think what he respects most is movies that aren't pretentious, which includes the bad & the ugly along with the good. You can't deny he doesn't know his stuff. Unlike most foreign critics of Hong Kong movies, he's lived there for 20 years and speaks the language, plus he has a solid background in Hong Kong cinema.

Best Reference Book for 1990s Hong Kong Movies.......2003-07-25

I can't believe some of the negative comments I've read here by other reviewers. Whether or not you agree with Fonoroff's opinions, this book is an authorative and informative document covering the decade from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Unlike a lot of Westerners who review Hong Kong movies on DVD long after their release, Fonoroff saw them when they first came out, and his reviews include many topical references that give an overall feeling for the time and place in which they were made. Plus, there's over 600 reviews in the book, covering all the major and most of the minor movies of the period. There isn't another book in English like it.

Does Fonoroff even LIKE HK movies?.......2003-05-14

This book is so snarky and consistently negative I can only wonder why the author has written about HK movies for this long! There are several good books on HK flicks out there and no reason to buy this misguided publication.

subtitle: looking down a gweilo nose.........2001-01-02

A middlebrow book with highbrow pretensions. I picked this book up at the airport hoping for a nice light read on the plane, and ended up wishing there was an 'EJECT' chute as I was halfway over the Pacific. Rarely have I ever read a book so bristling with enmity and disdain for its subject matter, and with such terrific cultural ignorance one wonders if any research was done other than hanging around the 'western' concessions and expat hangouts. I had thought that such 'colonial' condescension had passed with the times, but apparently it is still alive and well. That is the tone which informs this entire tome and permeates every review therein.. which is terribly unfortunate, given that the author's rather rare and privileged position would have afforded him valuable glimpses behind this once vibrant filmic community ( one can always hope for a second flowering, considering the recent output and the success of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, though not made in HK)... if only one had chosen to see with fresh eyes, rather than attempt to shoehorn every filmic tradition into tired Hollywood conventions of narrative film making.When faced with situations like this, one should give pause to one's examination of the subject at hand, and call into question the yardstick which is being used to take its measure.

Also MOST notable for missing the boat on Wong Kar Wai.

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Home on the Road: The Motor Home in America.

Manufacturer: Smithsonian Books
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Good. Not Great........1999-07-13

David Ellis' second time out writing a X-Com strategy guide brings some mixed results this time around.

The Bad: Around half of the guide is a simply re-print of the manual, with a few added details. Although good, many other sections of the guide were simply too short and did not go into enough depth (who ever heard of devoting only 1 chapter to the tactical part of an X-Com game?).

The Good: Aside from the manual re-print, the entire quality of the material was very very high. Combat tips are right on the mark, and information is presented in an easy to find/read way. The tables are placed in the chapters they relate to, not some "Tables and Reference information" chapter at the end of the guide. It is a very easy to use companion to the game, not diving into meaningless details (for the most part) but not skimming important subjects (for the most part) either.

Bottom line: Mostly Excellent quality, just not enough of it.

An excellent reference and how-to guide.......1999-01-19

One of the best game guides I have ever read, this book greatly enhances the Terror from the Deep experience. Rather than being a step-by-step guide that you must follow like a robot without understanding _why_(something that would be almost impossible anyway, due to the nature of the game), this guide provides the detailed information you need to make your _own_ decisions. Statistics on literally everything in the game, along with detailed explanations of how crucial game aspects like movement, combat, and finances _really_ work, make this one a keeper.

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So you know HTML, even JavaScript, but the idea of learning an actual programming language like PHP terrifies you? Well, stop quaking and get going with this easy task-based guide! Aimed at beginning PHP developers just like yourself, this volume uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of visual aids to get you started testing scripts, using basic syntax, working with variables, creating Web applications, and everything else you need to know to create dynamic Web pages with this increasingly popular and important scripting language. Along the way, you'll learn about all that's new in version 5: the new Zend Engine, updated XML support, greatly improved streams (now able to access low-level socket operations), a bundled copy of SQLite, and more. Throughout the book, you'll find sample scripts and projects as well as the timesaving tips and techniques that have become the hallmark of the popular Visual QuickStart series. A companion Web site offers all of the book's scripts for download.

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Wonderful resource, useful.......2007-10-03

An excellent resource book, with step-by-step instructions. It is easy to understand yet has useful examples. Great book!

Perfect beginner book.......2007-06-06

This book was perfect for the newbie to PHP programming. It walks you through examples with perfect clarity and a great explanation of why. I wish more how-to books were written just like this one. Other programming how-to books are very difficult to read and require a reference library to comrehend all the unexplained material. This books explains everything it introduces. I will look for more books from Mr. Ullman.

Comprehensive for Beginners.......2007-05-12

I like this book series. They provide a foundation that I find much easier to "digest" than online tutorials, articles, or guides. [Am a note-taking learner who needs a solid resource around, afterwards.]

The topic flow is nice; you ease into a wider scope of applications
with simple examples that can be built upon. It's very helpful when authors provide online errata, resources, forums, etc. and Larry Ullman's text does.

- a beginner who made progress ;-)

Excellent book.......2007-05-08

$novice = "I don't know the first thing about PHP and I really want to learn it";
$advanced = "Already know a fair amount of PHP and want to get the finishing touches on my wealth of knowledge";
if ($phpUnderstanding == $novice){
print "This book was so helpful. It took me from zero knowledge to building basic web applications. It doesn't supply you with every ounce of knowledge to build the next DIGG. It does, however, get you on the road. This is a must read for beginners wanting to learn PHP. //see variable $novice.
}elseif ($phpUnderstanding == $advanced){
print "This book really isnt for you. It is a beginners book and is meant for folks who dont know the first thing about PHP. Ullman wrote another book for Advanced PHP. Get that one.}

Great Place to Start.......2007-05-07

Easy to follow and done at a nice pace. I am a total beginner and I had no real problems with it. I did find it difficult to convert the examples in to usable applications though.
I will be going on to the next book in the series pretty soon though.
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Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web, Second Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide)

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Really hard to follow
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A must for learning Perl
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Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web, Second Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide)
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Perl is one of the most popular scripting languages for adding powerful interactive features to Web pages. Perl lets you place forms on your site that collect and process user input such as comments and product orders; enables visitors to search for information; and can integrate a database into your site, among its many other capabilities. Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide fully revised and updated since its original 1998 release, gets users to the core of CGI scripting with Perl. Even first-time programmers will be able to create useful, workable scripts from scratch, or adapt and customize existing scripts to their own needs. Hundreds of screen shots and clear, easy-to-understand directions make this the perfect Perl book for beginners, as well as a handy reference for those with previous programming experience.

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Really hard to follow.......2007-01-27

First off, she didn't even get started with user exercises until Chapter 7. (I can already use a web server, thank you-- she doesn't need six chapters to explain the subject) And it would be nice if she included the HTML form examples along with the corresponding perl/CGI scripts that processed the data generated. As it stands, she has a chapter which tells you how to create a form, and then two chapters later, when she gets to the perl/CGI examples, they don't correspond to anything that's been covered in earlier chapters pertaining to form data. I had a much easier time following a quickie online tutorial.

I cannot advise strenuously enough against purchasing this book.

Nice try, but disappointing.......2006-10-21

I have some experience with Perl and no experience with CGI, so I was looking for a book that would help me make the transition to using CGI. After looking around a lot, there did not seem to be a clear choice. Most of the books were aimed at someone who knew nothing about either or already had a solid background in both and wanted to increase their skill level. I finally decided to try this book.

I have only previously purchased one other book in the Visual Quickstart Guide series (PageMaker 7 for Windows and MacIntosh). I soon learned that there is a difference in a book written about an application and a book written about programming. Although this series may work nicely for an application with menus and so forth, the picture format is not that helpful when learning programming. Probably the first thing I noticed was that many of the "screen shots" were in Spanish. Although the text is in English, many of the examples are not. (HTML, Perl, and CGI are "universal" languages, but plain text--the web page content--is not.) Although this is not an insurmountable problem, it did make following the examples more difficult. Therefore, I removed a "half star" from the rating for this weakness. (Let's face it, how hard would it be to type 20 scripts using a different language and change the screen shots in the book?)

The author stated that the book's format would not allow printing everything (there is a clue there), but that you could download the files from one of two sites. Although you have interaction of three different structures (HTML, Perl, and CGI), you may not see them all in the book for any given exercise, and some of them will not be complete. Here is an typical example:

1. The author presents a screen shot of the HTML page that generates the values being used. It does not include a listing of the underlying HTML markup. Therefore, the reader has to guess based on the appearance of the web page what the underlying markup looks like--including variable names and types. You will find as the exercises get more complex, that guessing becomes very difficult without resorting to examining the downloaded files.
2. The author shows a snippet of the Perl program, revealing the new content. You are assumed to have already mastered the rest of the program to some extent.
3. A final screen shot that reveals what the output looks like.
4. The book's text that accompanies these images uses generic phrases such as "Type 'name', where name is the content of the HTML form element's NAME attribute."

By sitting back and pondering each exercise, you can figure things out, but it is unacceptable (in my opinion, at least) to make the reader work so hard to put all the pieces together when the author could have cited a specific example in the book. Therefore, I removed another star from the rating for this combination of weaknesses.

In some cases the text is not related to the images at all. As an example, I cannot comprehend how the text and images on page 144 (that discusses referring to multiple items in an array) go together. The instructions refer to text that does not appear anywhere in the screen shots. Therefore, I removed another "half star" from the rating for this, since it happens more than once. (It makes me wonder if anyone put anything beyond a cursory effort into proofreading this book.)

The Visual Quickstart Guide series promotes itself as a source where you can get what you need by going directly to the relevant chapters and using it partly as a reference rather than as a tutorial. Unfortunately, programming does not work like that unless you already understand the content presented earlier in the book. In my opinion, unless your CGI needs are very minimal, you will need to read the entire book in order to establish a working knowledge of this topic. I do not consider that either a strength or weakness of the book. It is more the nature of the subject matter. Still, if you plan to purchase this book and scan for a few ideas and be "up and running in no time" as the book cover claims, you will be disappointed. (Unless you already understand the topic and will just use the book as a reference to remind you of certain commands or formats.)

While writing this review, I realized that this is not a standalone book. Although I did not spend an extensive amount of time in other books, I did need to refer to other Perl and HTML books occasionally to grasp the concepts being presented, probably spending an hour in each to supplement and better explain various topics discussed in this book. For a book aimed at beginning and intermediate programmers, I believe this is unacceptable. The author does suggest that if you need to brush up on HTML that you should buy her other book(!), and she also says that this book (Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web) is not an exhaustive guide to Perl. I suppose this could be taken to warn the reader that they need some knowledge of both before using the book, but I believe the coverage for a "beginner" is too sparse. It would not have killed them to add another 50 pages to the content and explain things more thoroughly. Although it is possible for people with zero knowledge of any of these elements (HTML, Perl, and CGI) to put something together using this book, I suspect that most of them will get things done more as a result of copying what they see than really understanding what they are doing. Therefore, I removed another star from the rating.

Overall, I rate Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web at 2 stars out of 5. You can learn some Perl and CGI from this book. Unfortunately, the process is more difficult and confusing than it needs to be. Although this book has great potential, I believe it needs a major rewrite--perhaps even by a different author who has a better "teaching" ability to "Teach yourself Perl and CGI scripting the quick and easy way!" as the cover claims.

A must for learning Perl.......2005-12-10

"Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web" is well organized, well written, and easy to understand. Elizabeth Castro clearly puts great care into communicating. She succeeds.

This book worked well for me as an instructional text, and now I use it as a reference. It's a must for anyone who wants to learn Perl.

This book is my bible.......2005-11-28

I have been programming since 1977. When I finally broke down and realized I was going to have to learn ANOTHER language I went out and reluctantly bought this book because it was the only one on the shelf.

I came from a C background and was amazed how quickly the author was able to put the pieces of the puzzle together for me.

While she skipped over large areas and didn't cloud issues with obnoxious synonyms of the perl language I understood the basics enough that when I need that simple unanswered question I only need to look on the Net.

I will be eternally grateful for E Castro and her marvellous book! Thank you.

Doesn't really cover even the basics of CGI.pm.......2005-07-13

This is a very basic CGI book-- perhaps a little too basic.

I really like the format of the Visual Quickstart books. The books are easy to follow, and it's simple to open to book to any section, read the page and close the book. Unlike other Perl books, there are no long, drawn out diatribes.

Here's the big problem with this book-- The author only covers a single part of Perl's CGI capabilities-- she covers the param() function, but little else.

It would be enormously helpful if the book covered other basic perl topics --- the header() function to create the HTML header, the print_head("This is the title") function to start the HTML page, the p("Hello World!") function to print a paragraph, etc.

It's fine that the book doesn't cover object-oriented programming, but it's silly that the book doesn't cover other basic HTML functions.

Some other minor downsides:

- The book uses many CGI examples which need a HTML form and a CGI script. The book doesn't contain the text for the HTML forms, and it's hard to follow the examples if you don't have the HTML in front of you.

- The book is dated, and discusses out-of-date HTML. Most sites have been running XHTML (or something close) for several years, but this book uses bad HTML4.0 examples.

- If the examples would be much easier to read if the author used proper indenting for the Perl code.

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