80X86 IBM PC and Compatible Computers: Assembly Language, Design, and Interfacing, Vols. 1 and 2, Fourth Edition

Book Description

Praised by experts for its clarity and topical breadth, this visually appealing, one-stop source on PCs uses an easy-to-understand, step-by-step approach to teaching the fundamentals of 80x86 assembly language programming and PC architecture. Offering users a fun, hands-on learning experience, it uses the Debug utility to show what action the instruction performs, then provides a sample program to show its application. Reinforcing concepts with numerous examples and review questions, its oversized pages delve into dozens of related subjects, including DOS memory map, BIOS, microprocessor architecture, supporting chips, buses, interfacing techniques, system programming, memory hierarchy, DOS memory management, tables of instruction timings, hard disk characteristics, and more. For learners ready to master PC system programming.

Customer Reviews:

a work of art........2003-07-30

most definately not a book for the beginning assembly language programmer. that said, this is one of the most detailed and informative books on the subject i have every had the pleasure of finding, purchasing, and reading.

the book travels deep into the electronic architecture of the humble pc and teaches you how to do things you never even knew could be done. it covers parallel port and serial port interfacing, memory architecture, graphics programming, and just about every other facet of the pc that there is in a very comprehensive and satisfying manner.

i have purchased 9 books so far published by prentice hall, and all were superb. i whole heartedly recommend to EVERYONE that if you ever need to know about something and want a book, see what prentice hall has on the subject FIRST. the quality and quantity of information and the layout and design in their publications are second to none.

if assembly language programming were a religion then this is my bible, and the authors and publishers are my gods.

Customer Reviews:

Get Fuzzy Calendar.......2007-04-09

Darby Conley must be an animal lover, or has grown up with cats & dogs all his life. His 'animal' wit is astounding. Satchel is simply lovable Bucky Cat is, well, as sarcastic as a cat can be. If you want to have a LOL day, every day, this is a must for any desk top.

Get Fuzzy Calendar 2007.......2007-02-23

I love Get Fuzzy cartoons and I absolutely can't live without the 365 days a year calendar. Each day depicts another glimpse into the lives of Satchel and Bucky which in some small way always reminds me of my 3 Girls (Suzie, Trixie and Gracie). We can't help but relate to the lives of Bucky and Satchel since they always seem to hit upon something that happens in our own lives.

Keep up the good work.

Thank you, Pattie K

Always good for a laugh.......2007-02-09

Get Fuzzy is something that can always be counted on to make me laugh. Sometimes out loud. Other times it just makes me grin. No matter what it always lifts my mood. Getting a new strip everyday is even better so the day to day calender is great. It is also nice that the strips are run in order so the small stories in the strip do not get messed up and are all the more funny when they are linked together the right way.

Have you had your Bucky today?.......2007-02-07

I am a tremendous lover of Bucky Katt. It is wonderful to have a Get Fuzzy comic to wake up to every day. I highly recommend buying this page-a-day calendar so that you can get that humorous lift to start your day.

never disappoints.......2007-02-07

A constant - as time itself ... every day Rob, Sachel and Bucky cat deliver something that helps the days beginnings.... its addictive as coffee and a donut ... but more healthy...

Customer Reviews:

Very enjoyable.......2001-06-27

The course was well-structured, easy to follow and also with a good CD. Probably good for people who can't read music but can already play well.

NO.......2001-04-05

Let me put it succinctly:

1) ANYBODY who can read music could have written this.

2) Many people who can read music HAVE published books about how to read music: there are MANY better alternatives available.

3) Much of what this particular book tells you is WRONG.

Here is ONE much better alternative: The ABC OF MUSIC: A SHORT PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE BASICS by Imogen Holst.

So what part of "NO" don't you understand?

Really useful stuff.......2001-03-16

I don't get the negative review at the bottom of the page. As somebody who can already play an instrument to a high level, but couldn't read music, this is a GODSEND. I'd always found the subject intimidating until studying this book - now I don't. I REALLY recommend this book. LOTS

Excellent for adult education.......2000-08-25

Terry Burrows' "How to Read Music" is the ideal for adult students who want to read music without attending classes. Thorough tests are given throughout the book, to assure you understand the material. A CD is also included to help you understand the text better, by listening to examples of written music.

Looking To Put Your Music Notes.......1999-12-14

This book assumes you learn to play an instrument without learnning to read music notation. It tries to match the note with the sound, and test you to see if you know the notes. You take each test using the CD. In order to use the CD correctly The author recommends a CD player that "searches tracks", not a CD that shows "time remaining". You can use a "time remaining CD to synchronize but it's not easy.

Book Description

Public education has been one of the central social institutions in Canada since Confederation. In The Sociology of Education in Canada Professor Terry Wotherspoon traces the historical development and organization of Canadian education, and describes sociological theories and analysis of education. Using a critical perspective, the author examines: schooling and its impact on children and youth in Canada; the roles of teachers and teaching, and how these have and have not changed over the years; the relationship between education and employment; how education succeeds--and fails--in its task of social reproduction; and contemporary challenges and proposed reforms in provinces across Canada, where a secular multicultural society has created new demands on an institution formed in an earlier, more homogeneous Canada. Gender bias, cultural hegemony, racism, ethnicity, curricula, and Aboriginal needs are among the many topics considered, and this uniquely Canadian text also includes a wide range of boxed excerpts from such sources as: the 1875 regulations for BC teachers, first-person Native accounts of residential schools, recent provincial royal commissions, and the daily diary of an elementary school teacher. The importance of education in Canadian society, Professor Wotherspoon writes, reaches well beyond 'formal or overt educational objectives. We learn about such things as competition, success, failure, gender roles, cultural understanding, and our place in society through our participation in the daily rituals of schooling.'

Customer Reviews:

NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY COVER..........2000-05-14

The Sociology of Education In Canada is more than just another book with a pretty cover. In this book, the author, Dr. Terry Wotherspoon, successfully provides an in-depth critical sociological analysis of the contemporary issues and challenges that concern the educational system in Canada.

More specifically, the author addresses such issues as gender bias, poverty, racism, and the needs of First Nations students in our schools.

The sections that I found to be especially interesting included first-person accounts of the residential school experience, and the diary of an elementary school teacher.

As a fellow sociologist, and an educator who has taught everything from kindergarten to upper-year sociology classes, I highly recommend Dr. Wotherspoon's book to anyone who has a desire to gain some interesting insights into the Canadian educational system. I personally intend to utilize this book as a text in some of my future university classes.

Thanks Dr. Wotherspoon. Your dedication to conceiving this body of research is greatly appreciated...especially at a time when our educational system faces serious challenges that are often considered to be of crisis proportions.

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Tips for saying the right things when the cameras are rolling and the reporters are taking notes

In today's media-saturated business arena, "good press" is vital for everything from proactive public relations to post-disaster damage control. One wrong move, or slip of the tongue, can be fatal. How to Make the Most Out of Every Media Appearance shows anyone how to face the public through the media, and represent his or her business or industry with poise, confidence, and the ability to deliver a positive message without being sidetracked or distracted.

Written by George Merlis, an Emmy-award-winning network television producer and top media trainer, this situation-specific book is filled with fascinating examples of how to say the right--and wrong--thing. It outlines a step-by-step program for:

Defining a message and making it media-friendly
Understanding what a media outlet is really looking for
Concisely and accurately delivering a message--and no more

Download Description

Tips for saying the right things when the cameras are rolling and the reporters are taking notes In today's media-saturated business arena, "good press" is vital for everything from proactive public relations to post-disaster damage control. One wrong move, or slip of the tongue, can be fatal. How to Make the Most Out of Every Media Appearanceshows anyone how to face the public through the media, and represent his or her business or industry with poise, confidence, and the ability to deliver a positive message without being sidetracked or distracted. Written by George Merlis, an Emmy-awardwinning network television producer and top media trainer, this situation-specific book is filled with fascinating examples of how to say the right--and wrong--thing. It outlines a step-by-step program for: Defining a message and making it media-friendly Understanding what a media outlet is really looking for Concisely and accurately delivering a message--and no more

Customer Reviews:

Strong Media Tips Here.......2004-11-26

The author gives simple and easy-to-use tips here on exactly how to prepare for an interview. It is an excellent job of de-mystifying the whole interview process.

Helped Me With An Interview.......2004-01-22

I am in politics and have done a fair number of media interviews. One thing that set me off in the book was a quote from a journalist that politicians were no good at media. (The actual language is a lot stronger). At first I took offense, but after reading Merlis' book, I realized that most of us in the political arena are being overly formula-driven, canned, artificial and that this only adds to public disillusion with the political system.

So I followed the advice in the book. I prepared an agenda for my next interview, I remembered who I was talking to (NOT the reporter, but his readers) and banished the usual evasions from my encounter with the reporter.

What a difference! At the end of the interview, the reporter thanked me for being "frank" and for the "great quotes."

I recommended the book to several of my political friends, and -- in fact -- logged back on to Amazon.com to buy a colleague a copy -- which occasioned this review. Now if we only keep the other party from finding out about it.

Average customer rating:

Very inaccurate guide

You can find a better walkthrough online

it covered what needed to be covered

For a strategy guide, it was not very good

Not a bad guide

The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (Prima Official Game Guide)
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Manufacturer: Prima Games
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Binding: Paperback

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Release Date: 2004-11-09

Book Description

·Complete weapons and armor appendix includes full stats for hundreds of armaments
·Full walkthrough to help you earn a 100% completion ranking
·All character and guest character skills covered
·Detailed strategies for developing your heroes
·Complete "Evil Mode" and earn exclusive secret items
·All monster stats, abilities, vulnerabilities, and immunities covered

Customer Reviews:

Very inaccurate guide.......2007-03-10

This guide has many errors as far as what certain character (enemy) classes are immune to. The game itself is not that hard and you really don't need the maps in this guide for anything. So this guide basically fails at the one thing it could have been useful for. Really, for the money that Prima makes selling these guides, there is no excuse for putting out a shoddy product filled with mistakes. As another reviewer said, you can find better, more accurate guides online. This is definitely one guide that you should pass on and just save your money. Even if you loved this game like I did, this guide is not worth the investment (even for a few dollars used - I got mine cheap and ended up just giving it away since it's pretty useless).

You can find a better walkthrough online.......2005-08-10

This walkthrough was horrible. Yes, it tells you where to go, but I rely on all the fine points. The information is, in total, WRONG. I spent almost half the game building up this one "skill", because the "Witch-king" is vulnerable to it. Turns out he ISN'T vulnerable to it, the book had wrong information, and while in a fight with the King of the Nazgul, it isn't good to not have any attacks. (*.-) So right now as the Witch-King is waving his mace around on the PS2, I am writing this to let you all know that it's a better idea to just find one online, or just stop cheating. (*.*) By the way, He is NOT Vulnerable to "Bind Spirit".

it covered what needed to be covered.......2005-04-08

Prima's Strategy Guide for the Playstation 2 game "Lord of the Rings: The Third Age" is a mixed bag in regards to how helpful it is. For my needs, I found the guide to be quite helpful. To start with, there is quite a bit of information on each character and which of the stats should be improved for each character, and which skills are the most valuable for that character to learn. There are sections of the guide focusing on all of the weapons, armor, and items in the game. There is a bestiary at the end of the guide giving stats on all of the enemies. All of this is nice, but the real reason most people purchase a strategy guide is the full game walkthrough.

The walkthrough itself is the part of the guide which may give the most help and cause the most confusion/frustration. What will help the most is that the guide gives a very good run down on what it is that you are supposed to, in what order you should do it (in those instances you have a choice), and what some of the best tactics are to help you succeed. The guide, in text form, gives description of the goals, enemies, and what items are won or found in the area. There are some boss strategies included. This isn't a very complex game so the general strategies the guide gives are really good enough (use crippling attacks or Arrows of Sleep when they work, use powerful attacks) for what the game requires. In this manner the guide was quite helpful and I was able to complete the game with 100% of the tasks/quests completed.

The downside of the walkthrough is a lack of clarity and a little bit of inaccuracy. There are maps at the beginning of each chapter with numbers relating to which event is happening at which location. Maps are usually excellent tools for working through a game. The trouble here is that the maps are very vague. Imagine a map of the United States. It's a fairly small map and you know that Minnesota is somewhere to the north and in the center of the country. Suppose there are only a few main roads that you can possibly take to get to Minnesota from Georgia. If the map doesn't identify which road you are on or where exactly you are starting from on the map, you may end up getting to Minnesota but you won't know where exactly you are until you get there. That is pretty much what the maps in the guide are like. Some levels are better, others are worse. I do feel that the text description overcomes the flaws with the maps, but there is no quick glancing at the map to get a grasp of where you are.

The other downside is a question of accuracy. The guide will list times where Crippling Attacks (an attack which will delay the turn of an enemy, it is incredibly valuable) are to be used but it turns out that the enemy is really immune to it (and vice versa). This happens more often towards the end of the guide and since the strategies are typically fairly simple this inaccuracy is easily overcome, but it is a little irritating when you waste a crippling attack over a more powerful attack in a difficult battle.

I think I would have preferred a few more enemy charts and better maps within the walkthrough section, but overall I didn't have a problem with this guide. It helped me clear the game 100% (I'm sure I would have missed something) and to get all the best armor and weapons until I got too lazy to follow directions on the last chapter. By no means is this the best guide ever, but it helped me finish the game and it covered all of the information that was actually needed for me to make it through the game.

-Joe Sherry

For a strategy guide, it was not very good.......2005-01-16

Everyone usually looks at a strategy guide at once in their life, whether it be for a Role Playing game, a Teen game, a Mature game, or a Everyone game. I've looked at bunches of strategy guides in my life, and, to be truthful, I've seen guides in magazines that are better. It tells you about the characters, the guests, the items, and so on. But the guide itself....

I've seen guides with mistakes before, after all, you can't catch every mistake. But this book abounded with them. The book got confused with what item was here, and what item was there. It'll say an item is in one place, but its a different piece of equipment. Where that equipment is supposed to be, is the piece that was supposed to be in the other spot.

There is enough typos and grammatical errors that it isn't even funny. One is funny. Maybe even two. But any more than that, and its utterly ridiculous.

And the enemy strategies. Wow. They really botched that up. The strategies in themselves were good, until they contradicted themselves. For example, the giant elephants (I forget what they're called) have little cards with stats, and a little spot in the back of the book with stats. If you look, it'll say things like Slow: Immune. However, if you go into the middle where the strategy is, it says to use a Crippling attack, which works really good against them (which also means they are effected). However, Crippling attacks are slow attacks, and the elephants are immune to them.

Another case, the Witch King of Angmar, 3rd battle. It says Eowyn is a good asset. Hello! My people do 20,000-40,000 damage per attack, and she does a measly 2500 damage! How is that an asset? Also, it says he is vulnerable to Bind Spirit spells, like Silence Evil. It also says that on the card and in the back. But he is immune!

The Evil Mode help isn't even help. And sometimes it doesn't even give a complete list of items achieved.

I do NOT reccommend this guide to someone who actually expects to be decently helped. Yes, it helps. Just not very much. This book is almost worthless. It makes you think the writers didn't even play it or know what they were talking about, some of that information is so off target. Find a new strategy guide, by someone else. Or, go to a FAQ page. They're more useful than this wad of paper.

Trust me, do not buy this book, unless you want to know obvious music. Like item and character descriptions. And a list of skills. If I could, I'd take it back. It isn't really needed, anyways.

Not a bad guide.......2005-01-03

Having used and owned many prima strategy guides, this one was not quite up to par with the others. Prima is known for having charts saying where to find unique items and where to encounter specific Creatures, but when i was looking through this guide, there were no charts in the walkthroughs; all in paragraph form.

The list of weapons and their special attributes was very nice. The pictures are also not nearly as clear as they have been in past guides.

In conclusion, this guide will get the job done, but not much more. You can just as easily beat the game without this guide.

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