Jumping Ship: How to Navigate Your Way to a More Satifying Job or Career

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Swimming.......2000-04-23

As a Counselor, and as a ship jumper, I found this book to be a friendly guide through the rough, cold waters of career change.Behan has 'been there and done that. Follow her suggestions and you'll be swimming in no time.

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A handy reference for engineers and technicians, this useful guide fully explores the design and capabilities of today's microprocessor , offering a practical and in-depth study of the Intel 80X86 microprocessor family with thorough and detailed coverage of its hardware and software. Written in a clear and progressive manner and enhanced with over 250 illustrations, it provides more than 70 examples of a variety of real-world applications, and guides users through the construction of their own 8088-based computer. Highlights the main features of the 80X86, with detailed chapters covering data types, addressing modes and more. Discusses programming with DOS and BIOS function calls, and introduces users to many advanced concepts, such as linking multiple object files, instruction execution time, and memory management. Examines three peripherals designed to interface with the 80X86, and comes with a ready-to-use companion disk that contains all source code and project files. Includes a troubleshooting techniques section in each chapter, with real-world tips, and adds two new chapters on the advanced Intel processor Pentium -one on its hardware; one on protected mode operation.

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Dry but great appendix.......2004-01-13

This book is very dry and a horrible read. The best thing about the book is the appendix. The appendix is great! It includes several pages for converting Assembly to binary. It also includes several pages on Assembly language commmands and how they are used. The book is definitely not worth its cost, but if you are forced to buy it as a textbook, it may not be bad reference book to keep at the end of the semester.

Especial para principiantes........1998-07-26

Creo que este libro es perfecto para las personas que quieren aprender a programar sin saber hacerlo. El libro , aunque tiene ciertos errores de impresion, no deja de ser exelente.

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The Hatless Man An Anthology of Odd & Forgotten Manners.
Sarah Kortum
Manufacturer: NY:Viking (1995).
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RO6G84

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The Hatless Man: An Anthology of Odd and Forgotten Manners
Sarah Kortum
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0670864978

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Behind the scenes at the studios.......2000-05-18

This book will appeal to more dedicated movie fans, consisting as it does of 38 interviews with folks who are largely unknown outside the movie community. These include assistant directors, set designers and builders, publicity men, actors' agents, sound recordists, and extras. We get insight into the lives of artisans, most of whose names do not crop up in fan mags, gossip columns, or in Oscar balloting. But these people harbor a great affection for the movie business and their part in it. They express pride in their accomplishments, unsung though they may seem. Where outsiders may consider an Oscar the only valid reward available to members of the movie community, an assistant director, camera operator, or sound recordist can treasure a compliment from a film's director at the end of a hard day's shooting just as much as a more public award. The moral of this book is that the Hollywood life need not be lived in the public eye or on the grand scale to be satisfying. My main quibble with the book is that I would have liked the interviews to be longer and more numerous.

Talking Pictures: With the People Who Made Them (ISBN:1565841751)

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Talking Pictures: With the People Who Made Them (ISBN:1565841751)
Sylvia & Bundy, Marion Abbott Shorris
Manufacturer: New Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LC34M8

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Talking Pictures with the People Who Made Them
Sylvia and BUNDY, Marion Abbott SHORRIS
Manufacturer: The New Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NP0LLK

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Western-educated Elites in Kenya, 1900-1963: The African American Factor proposes to conduct a critical examination of the emergence of the American-educated Kenyan elites (the Asomi) and their role in the nationalist movement and eventually their Africanization of the Civil and Private sectors in Kenya. These historic leaders considered the struggle to eliminate racism and shed the yoke of colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and America as one fight against one common enemy, the European. Their efforts resulted in the development of the American-educated Asomi in Kenya. I wrote this book to provide a historical perspective on development of western-educated Kenyans. The work is divided into five chapters that consist of an examination of Traditional, Islamic, Missionary, and government education and the subsequent higher education that Kenyan students received in the United States prior to returning to their homeland. It is written for advanced undergraduates, graduated students, and historians, whoalready possess a general knowledge about Kenyan history, but want a deeper understanding of the global influence of the Pan-African movement in the first half of the twentieth century. This text depicts the commonalities that existed between Africans and African-Americans during their fights for independence and equality.

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This is a great RPG AD&D adventure!.......1998-10-29

Doug Niles, one of the original members of the Dragonlance team, has written an adventure dealing with the Chaos war. I enjoyed just reading this adventure. Optional rules for SAGA players.

Seeds Of Chaos - Dragonlance, A Chaos War Adventure - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Game, Tsr 9587

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Seeds Of Chaos - Dragonlance, A Chaos War Adventure - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Game, Tsr 9587
Douglas; Tsr, Inc. Niles
Manufacturer: Tsr, Inc./Wizards Of Coast
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RIP1KE

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A good book, but the plot is a tad confusing...

Seraphic Feather: Seeds of Chaos
Hiroyuki Utatane , Yo Morimoto , and Hiroyuki Utatane
Manufacturer: Dark Horse
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A powerful extraterrestrial technology holds the real promise of curing a future Earth's ills...unless it falls into the wrong hands, where its potential to exploit, enslave, or exterminate mankind is just as real. And the moon, where an alien starship lies ready to give up its secrets, becomes a deadly battleground for possession of the Emblem Seeds, the key to harnessing the technology's incredible power. From ruthless corporate operatives to scientifically augmented government agents to murderous robots of unknown origin, all agendas draw in an ever-tightening ring of deceit and death around the precious seeds. And young paranormal Sunao Oumi, unwittingly drawn into the maelstrom, may become the key player in the game that will decide the future!

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A good book, but the plot is a tad confusing..........2003-04-14

I love the art in this book--it's elegant, clear, and nicely done. The story however, needs work. I have the first two books, and I have yet to understand most of what they are talking about. What are the Emblem Seeds? They tell us where they found them, but not what they are. We have yet to learn the connection between the Seeds and their holders, or what the purpose of the Seeds is. And the wording is so...unusual...that it is taking me some time and several re-readings just to try and figure out what the author is trying to say.

By the way, this is a very...adult series. There is not really any nudity, but the female characters are so overendowed that you begin to wonder how they can stand. And there is gore--one of the female characters gets blown in half, and her...resurrection is shown in very bloody and graphic detail.
So, this is not a series for the fragile. If you think you can deal with seeing body parts ripped off and people cut in two and a great deal of blood and organs, then give Seraphic Feather a try. If not, well, there are other choices out there.

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This digital document is an article from Studies in the Literary Imagination, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 8820 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "Then Rose the Seed of Chaos": Masque and Antimasque in The Dunciad in four books.(Critical essay)
Author: Laura Tosi
Publication: Studies in the Literary Imagination (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38 Issue: 1 Page: 197(22)

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Used it as textbook. Excellent!

Excellent Textbook

Good for Students - Not So Good for Casual Use

lovely innovation in teaching programming

Learning to Program with Alice, Brief Edition
Wanda P Dann , Stephen Cooper , and Randy Pausch
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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This book takes an innovative approach to fundamental programming concepts using 3D animation. Introduces the basic concepts of object-oriented programming as related to today’s multimedia world. Explains how to use the Alice environment to explore the fundamentals of programming. Provides illustrations and step-by-step demonstrations to explore topics in depth. For anyone interested in programming using the Alice environment

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Used it as textbook. Excellent!.......2007-07-20

"One of Alice's real strengths is that it has been able to make abstract concepts concrete in the eyes of first- time programmers. " - Forward to the book.

I used this book as a textbook in a one-semester introduction to programming course in my high school. I intend to use it again next year. Here is why:

Each chapter begins with a motivational overview of the chapter's topic and end with exercises and projects. Storyboards are used to provide an algorithmic step-by-step description of the example animation. Screenshots of code and visual setting allowed students to recreate and closely follow the covered topic.

Student had their copies of the book open next to their workstations. Throughout the course, they were focused, on task and having fun. This made my experience teaching the course very rewarding. Answers to end of chapter exercises, projects and instructional support material are available to instructors on [..]

With no hesitation I give it 5 stars.
M. Kadri (High School Teacher, New York, NY USA)

Excellent Textbook.......2007-01-17

I used this book as a textbook in a 'Programming with Multimedia Projects' college class. I thought it was very easy to understand, and I liked the way the material is presented: Using the Alice program (included on a CD-ROM with the book), each chapter walks you through each new topic in a few different 'lab exercises'. You are then able to apply what you have learned to 'project questions' at the end of each chapter. The only problem would be that if you are not part of a class when you are going through this book, questions would remain unanswered as there are no solutions in the back of the book (such as all odd-numbered questions, etc.). I believe it would be difficult for some to use this book as a stand-alone learning tool.

Good for Students - Not So Good for Casual Use.......2006-11-19

If you're already teaching or taking a course in Alice, you'll at least need access to this book. Being by the developers and also first to market - it is the standard text. As a text, it's also very good - but also focused on teaching programming principles, not doing animations.

If you've never heard of Alice or just have a general interest in it's capabilities, I'd suggest you download the program from the web first (it's free from CMU) and see what you think of it. If it interests you and seems to fit your needs (note you can't output standard video files such as .mov and/or .avi and the .html output is buggy), then invest in one of the texts.

lovely innovation in teaching programming.......2005-10-20

In a way, this is a tricky book for me to review. I learnt programming with Fortran on punch cards [remember them?]. Then later gravitated to other languages like Pascal, C and Java. But it was only in the 90s that languages started coming out with graphics built in. Prior to that, it was mostly text and binary Input/Output. That was our User Interface, shocking as it might seen to some of you. So there were always abstractions in learning a language, from the very start.

The authors of this book are spot on in saying that there has been little or no change in the teaching of programming to beginners, in the last 30 years. The languages being taught may have changed. Some are now object oriented, and have graphics libraries. But the basic pedagogy has remained constant all this time. So for example the classic "Pascal: User Manual and Report" from 1980 and a current book on Java have this in common.

The innovation offered by Alice is a stark contrast indeed. Alice lets you learn [or teach] a special programming language that manipulates objects in a three dimensional world. The emphasis is on the object-oriented nature of Alice. While other languages use the metaphor of OO mapping to and from real world objects, Alice gives a literal visual mapping that students can readily comprehend. Alice removes the middleman metaphor.

Interestingly, the authors suggest that Alice shifts some of the mental effort from the student's cognition to her perceptual [visual] system. Her visual incoming bandwidth is so large that visual changes can be readily understood.

The authors cite studies that show a faster uptake by students using Alice, compared to students without Alice. And more girls seem to go further with their programming. One could wonder if this ties into other studies suggesting that boys have [slightly] better abstract spatial understanding. By reducing this need, does Alice make programming more accessible to girls?

Alice has several niceties that aid in its usage. Especially useful is the lack of syntax issues. The essentially menu or icon driven implementation means that a student does not have to type in syntax. Hence avoiding a common source of errors. For students with a limited attention span, this removes a big source of frustration.

To be sure, Alice is just meant as a teaching language. Students are expected to graduate onto more realistic languages. But Alice can help those delicate cases of newcomers to programming retain some knowledge, and possibly even take more advanced courses. Here, the authors point out that an important special usage is for a course aimed at students who will not be programmers. That will be their first and only programming course. The teaching of such a course is important, and Alice might help.

If this book is well received, then a companion book would be helpful. The current book is meant for an instructor, though some students could certainly use it. What is needed is a simpler book, aimed perhaps at the primary school level, for the student reader. Maybe Dann et al are already working on that?

Learning to Program with Alice (Custom Edition for William Rainey Harper College)

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Learning to Program with Alice (Custom Edition for William Rainey Harper College)

Manufacturer: Pearson Custom Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0536106312

Learning to Program with Alice Beta Version

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Learning to Program with Alice Beta Version
Wanda P DannStephen CooperRandy Pausch
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIQ40S

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