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Approaches to Private Participation in Water Services is an informative toolkit that provides options for the design of policies to facilitate the delivery of good quality water and sanitation services to the poor. It highlights the need for tariffs, investment, stakeholder consultation, and regulatory policies to address the affordability and sustainability of those services.
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"Approaches to Private Participation in Water Services is an informative toolkit that provides options for the design of policies to facilitate the delivery of good quality water and sanitation services to the poor. It highlights the need for tariffs, investment, stakeholder consultation, and regulatory policies to address the affordability and sustainability of those services. Targeted to an audience that includes government advisors as well as consultants, lawyers, and donors, the toolkit builds on previous global experience in private participation in water and sanitation supply. Developing country governments and those interested in private participation in water and sanitation supply will find this toolkit an invaluable resource. "
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A Guy's Guide to Dating: Everything You Need to Know About Love, Sex, Relationships, and Other Things Too Terrible to Contemplate
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A Guy's Guide to Dating is tough to categorize. On one hand, it's clearly a guy's book, full of irreverent man-to-man advice about sex and dating through all stages of life (the college section includes a chart titled "The Top 10 Reasons You May Suspect You're Gay," one of which is "dancing too damn well"). On the other, it doesn't contain a lot of information that average guys won't already know or intuitively understand. For that reason, it may make more sense to recommend it to women who remain bewildered by the sweatier gender; however, anyone who reads A Guy's Guide to Dating will find something to laugh at. Even the dedication ("this is for all our dead homies") is funny.
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Bachelorhood used to be something young men aspired to. A man alone was a man empowered. But not anymore. As we cross the threshold into the twenty-first century, the state of being stag has lost its luster.
In A Guy's Guide to Dating, Brendan Baber and Eric Spitznagel shepherd guys from ages thirteen to thirty through the murky waters of the modern dating pool and then escort them down the path to contemporary relationship nirvana, covering all the stages of masculine romantic development. Topics covered start at childhood with "Dating Your Mom (Early Lessons in Love)," "Hand Jive: The Jerk-Off Years," then move on to "High School Confidential: An Introduction to the 16-Year-Old Girl," "Higher Learning (or How to Spend $15,000 a Year to Get Stoned, Date Lesbians, Argue with Feminists, and Contract Herpes," and then end up with "Commitment and Other Things That Scare the @#%! Outta Us" and "The M Word." Readers can say they are buying it for the most hilarious testosterone-tinged humor in a generation-when in fact many of them will pick it up for the genuinely practical, sane, intelligent dating advice.
A brash, sidesplitting guide through the pitfalls of modern romance, modern women, modern etiquette, and good old-fashioned lust, A Guy's Guide to Dating explains the art of finding women and then snaring them '90s style. This is a book no single man will want to be without, and no single woman will be able to resist buying for the men in her life.
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Funny but nothing new.......2001-12-28
While I did laugh at a lot of the things the authors brings up, none of it was really new to me. The authors also take the issue of STDs very lightly, something that it seems shouldn't be done in this day and age. There are other better books on the subject out there.
Terrible to Conteplate? I Guess is Right!.......2001-08-24
Since having this book bought by a friend this is one of the successful books a guy can have to know and succeed his dating.
It's up to you to place a review on this book but I'm giving it 5 stars! =)
Smart, funny, and all too real.......2001-05-30
I'll lead off with why I bought this book. I'd browsed it in the bookstore several times, giggling hysterically every time. One time, I left off after reading that after getting married, instead of going out, married couples had dinner parties, and instead of beer, they had wine and cheese.
I get home that evening. On my voice-mail is an invitation from a newly married friend, inviting me to a dinner party, and they'd provide the wine and cheese.
I bought this book the next day.
Honestly, this book really isn't that helpful. After all, you don't need to know how to handle the opposite sex in kindergarten by the time you can read this. However, their humor is insightful, clever, and extremely good. And, as a bonus, almost everything they say is true. You already know it, of course, one way or another, but it's still a good way of putting things.
Plus, it's the funniest book I've ever read. I highly recommend it.
Nothing any guy wouldn't already know.......2000-03-06
Was funny, cute, but really this book reminds me of the old phrase "everything I wanted to know I learned in kindergarden"...not worth the money.
Great gift.......2000-01-19
This book is a great gift for any single guy. It's indeed hilarious, yet much of the advice is remarkably to the point. I gave it to my college age brother, and it has become a "dating bible" for him and buddies. Bravo Spitznagel and Baber!
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MOST FUN STONES BOOK.......2007-06-08
IF YOU LIKE EXCITEMENT- SEX- DRUGS-INTRIGUE AND OH YEAH- ROCK AND ROLL- THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. I DONT KNOW HOW TRUE IT IS BUT IT SURE IS WILD!!!!
An engaging, believable read.......2007-05-31
I used to own the out-of-print paperback edition of this book. I foolishly gave it away.
Sanchez begins with his life as a young, aspiring underworld figure, emulating an older, already established relative. He worked in a casino, and also began to take up photography. (Sanchez writes that he photographed the first Moody Blues album cover.) An acquaintance, London art dealer Robert Fraser, was deeply in debt to another casino run by an underworld boss, and dramatically confided his problem to Sanchez. Sanchez nervily approached the creditor casino boss, to keep Fraser out of harm's way. Then--aware that the competing casino where he worked subtly rigged gaming against its own customers--Sanchez arranged for Fraser to win the money needed to pay off the debt. Fraser was grateful and so introduced "Spanish Tony" to his new, up-and-coming, hip young friends, the Rolling Stones.
Spanish Tony's common bond with Jones and Richards was his access to, and penchant for, hard drugs and he became a heroin addict.
This book mostly concentrates on Sanchez' close access to Jagger, Richards, and Jones, as well as Stones' exes Anita Pallenberg, Marianne Faithfull, and Bianca, between the years 1966-73, which was the peak of the Stones' artistic success. Watts, Wyman, and Mick Taylor are hardly discussed, and they get just a few pages of text.
Sanchez acknowledges the shallowness of his friendship with and access to the Stones as being based on his connections and ability to discreetly obtain large quantities of drugs in England and the south of France. He was Keith Richards' (who spent the most on drugs) liaison to the underworld. Sanchez severed his relationship with the Stones and went into rehab. There can be no question of Sanchez' close relationship with three of the Stones, from the unique candid photos he publishes here.
Anyone who wasn't present for the events which shaped the book can't know for sure, but to a fan of insider celebrity bios, this book is presented with sufficient insight and clarity to convince that it is principally a true story.
Still a Hot Seller.......2007-05-07
This book was first issued in 1979.
It was a very interesting book as it included Brian Jones. As Brian was the founder of the band, it is refreshing to read about him.
It includes Mick Taylor. Very talented but not as captivating or as gifted as Brian Jones.
More Than You Wanted To Know.......2007-03-23
Stones aficionados will enjoy the first third of this memoir by Tony Sanchez, dealer to the pop stars of London in the swinging sixties. The nightclub twilight world of late Stone Brian Jones is vividly evoked, and some of the better anecdotes include John Lennon scrambling to find the coke he dropped in Mick Jagger's limo, as well as Lennon advising Jones to get a new band together in the wake of his ostracization by the Stones.
After Jones' death and an overheated description of the Altamont disaster, the tale becomes progressively sleazier, Anita Pallenberg revealed as a shrew to any perceived competitor and the instigator of Keith's heroin addiction, Mick completely in love with himself, and endless descriptions of the nightmare of addiction in the Stones circle that Sanchez, his protests to the contrary, helped bring about. Really not a person you want to contribute your money to. Get Stephen Davis' book instead. Shallower, but you'll sleep better.
The Rolling Stones equivalent of Albert Speer's memoirs.......2005-10-04
KEITH HIMSELF HAS SAID THAT EVERYTHING TONY SANCHEZ SAYS IN THIS BOOK IS TRUE. If you want to know what it may have been like to really be on the inside, to really know the Stones and what they did on a day-to-day basis, get this book. Sanchez was a crook, he admits it. He was a junkie, he broke all sorts of laws working for Keith. But that's what it was (apparently) like! For Keith to feed his drug habit he would have needed somebody like Sanchez. There are some parts of this book that aren't exactly "clean reading," but the truth is the truth. This book is a classic of a unique kind: It isn't biased by the desire to be hip or appealing.
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- A very realistic and non-didactic look at housework
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In this witty look at our obsession with cleaning, Margaret Horsfield confronts her own dirt demons and scours the social, historical, literary and psychological nooks and crannies of the world of household chores. Through historical research, countless interviews with people and an analysis of characters from novels and advertising, Horsfield presents such memorable personalities as the woman who sends her small daughter to walk around other people's houses in white tights to check for dirt and the mother who, upon her son’s suicide, shed not a tear but stayed up all night frantically polishing her already gleaming hardwood floors. From demented television housewives to the redoubtable Mrs. Beeton, Biting the Dust runs the gamut of ideas and emotions. As we pause repeatedly to recognize our mothers, our friends, ourselves, we ask what we really do around the house and why. Biting the Dust throws light on a subject that is rich, strange and, oddly enough, highly entertaining.
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A very realistic and non-didactic look at housework.......2006-06-20
Margaret Horsfield looks at modern housework in the USA, Canada and Britain. Most readers can probably recognize themselves and others as she recounts different attitudes towards cleaning. Morsfield is sympathetic to the real pleasure that some people take in housework while arguing that different people have different styles, and that public health measures and environmental changes have greatly reduced the dangers of less than meticulous cleaning. Horsfield is not so much giving us a history of housework as using history to explore why we are as we are today. I really enjoyed the book - the despised nitty gritty is actually what makes up most of our lives.
To understand how our modern situation came to be, Horsfield looks back on inventions, health concerns, the rise of consumerism and social-political arguements. This is not as detailed for earlier periods as More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave by Ruth Schwartz Cowan.
I have a couple of personal reactions. For this purpose, pehaps it matters that I was born in 1953 and I have been a single career-woman for most of my adult life. Among the people I knew, it was assumed that girls grew up to be housewives, but that they needed to be educated to assume a career if something happened to their husband. As I got to the cusp of Junior High-High School, most of the girls that I knew swore that they would never work while they had pre-school children (and a bread-winner husband) but that they might consider working before or after the children. By the time I graduated from college, it was assumed that all young women would pursue a career, maybe taking off some time when they had small children. I imagine that younger women have had a very different experience.
Horsfield cites Betty Friedan without much consideration of the source. Horsfield comments that some attempted to indoctrinate women with the idea that any real woman wanted to stay home and would find housework fulfilling. It seems to me that we eventually got the same sorry line about pursuing a career - it would bring us identity, fulfillment and meaning. And money, of course, but for middle-class women, this was largely a token of esteem, not a needed resource. Apparently, we were to take as a model Charles Darwin, gentleman and scientist, devoted to his research, hard-working, respected in his field, but not vulgarly viewing it a source of funds. The financial needs of women in crises: widows, divorcees, poor women, have been used as arguments for opening jobs to women, but a surprising number of apparently intelligent people, knowing that I am single, have expressed surprise that I worked if I didn't enjoy it, and stared blankly when I mentioned food, clothing and shelter as my reasons. As I have tangled over the years with the fact that a job is not a beloved hobby and housework is by no means inconsequential, I have often felt an intense hatred for Friedan in particular, which turned into complete contempt when I learned that she had a full-time maid. If housework was a simple as she said, why did she need a maid? And for heavens sake, if she needed a FULL-time maid, her argument that the work wasn't time-consuming is self-refuted. I'd like to know what Simone de Beauvoir's domestic arrangments were before I take her too seriously. Horsfield is a little more critical of Beauvoir's claim that housework is insignificant if one has a career.
Outside of that, I have a better opinion of Don Aslett than Horsfield does. All advice has to be taken with a grain of salt and a grain of sense. I don't seem myself washing the walls as Aslett recommends any time soon, but I have to love an advisor who recommends a long-handled brush rather than getting down on one's hands and knees. But, taste cannot be argued.
Life Changing - gave me new meaning and focus - Earth Shattering!.......2006-01-18
This book changed my life - in fact I had to order a back up copy because I literally wore my first hardcover copy out with repeated (to this very day) reading of it. I cannot adequately express my gratitude to Ms. Horsfield for her most important contribution to the world with this book. I'll sum it up with, thank you and God bless - you changed my life and I'm so happy I discovered this book. It gave my life a clarity and a focus that was sorely lacking.
Surprisingly interesting.......2003-11-23
I thought this book was pretty good. Horsfield never gets preachy and remains amusing, which is probably what makes the book work. Whenever someone saw me reading this book, they kind of turned their nose up and asked, "What's there to say about cleaning your house?" Surprisingly a lot. Horsfield really approaches the issue from all different angles so it doesn't get boring. Admittedly, in some places the examples were a bit too exhaustive, but that was fine - I just skipped a few paragraphs and then carried on. I particularly liked her critique of others' books on housework, both historical and contemporary, mocking how "experts" have tried to declare from above how we should maintain our homes. Horsfield admits to being halfway between a lazy housekeeper and a crazed cleaner and her autobiographical anecdotes, as well as those from the outer edges of the spectrum were pretty amusing. Twice while reading I had to put the book down and go clean something - the first time to bleach my countertops, the second time to scrub my toilet. The rest of the time, however, I enjoyed reading this book while willfully ignoring my barely maintained apartment. Shows what kind of cleaner I am.
Engrossing.......2002-07-23
The best non-fiction that I have read this year. Biting the dust is a tongue-in-cheek look at the social history of cleaning. It traces the path that lead to our obsession (whether we clean or not) with cleaning; explaining how marketers and self appointed moral police made a clean home to not just be something to strive for, but women's moral duty to achieve. Horsefield explains how marketers and proponents of home economics (itself a misogynistic and idiotic construct) used the idea of teeny-tiny germs to enslave a couple of generations of women.
All right, that last bit was a tad over dramatic, but you get this picture. The narrative is fascinating and informative. It was great fun to read, and I highly recommend it.
Engrossing.......2002-07-23
BITING THE DUST is the best non-fiction book I have read this year. It is a tongue-in-cheek look at the social history of cleaning. It traces the path that lead to our obsession (whether we clean or not) with cleaning; explaining how marketers and self appointed moral police made a clean home to not just be something to strive for, but women's moral duty to achieve. Horsefield explains how marketers and proponents of home economics (itself a misogynistic and idiotic construct) used the idea of teeny-tiny germs to enslave a couple of generations of women.
All right, that last bit was a tad over dramatic, but you get this picture. The narrative is fascinating and informative. It was great fun to read and I highly recommend it.
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The Man in the Shadows: Fred Coe and the Golden Age of Television
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ASP.NET Website Programming shows you how to build an interactive website from design to deployment.
Packed with solutions to website programming problems, this book will have you building well-engineered, extendable ASP.NET websites quickly and easily.
What does this book cover?
In this book, you will learn how to
- Establish a solid, scalable website foundation
- Provide flexible user accounts integrating with ASP.NET's built-in security
- Create message forums that enable formatted messages but defend against cross-site scripting
- Generate revenue from advertising
- Build a web interface for uploading, downloading, editing, and managing the files on your site
- Add opinion polls, email newsletters, and news management
- Deploy the finished site on a live server
- Build websites using good, n-tier coding techniques
The site we build is modular. You can slot the modules into your own website, modify them, or use them as examples of particular ASP.NET techniques.
Who is this book for?
This book is for developers who
- Use ASP.NET and C#
- Use Visual Studio .NET Professional or above, or Visual C# .NET Standard
- Want to build content-based websites
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ASP.NET Website Programming shows you how to build an interactive website from design to deployment.
Packed with solutions to website programming problems, this book will have you building well-engineered, extendable ASP.NET websites quickly and easily.
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In this book, you will learn how to
- Establish a solid, scalable website foundation
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- Generate revenue from advertising
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- Add opinion polls, email newsletters, and news management
- Deploy the finished site on a live server
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Unbelievable!.......2006-02-27
I've read through many of the reviews on this site, both positive and negative. The main point is that if you are a beginner to ASP.NET, C#, or both then this book is NOT for you. However, if you have some experience with ASP.NET and C#.NET and would like to learn more about an N-Tier approach (essentially programming in .NET the RIGHT way) then this book is a MUST. I can't understand why anyone would give this book less than a 5 star rating that meet the authors' intended audience criteria (which, by the way, is stated in the book). I have read the book cover to cover several times and constantly use it as a resource. The book is a series of examples leading up to one project, but I don't think the authors' main intentions were for us to try and build ThePhile.com. From this book I took away the understanding of how to build a scalable, portable, professional Web site having 100% control over it.
If you build web sites with ASP.NET as a novice or hobbyist and want to get to the next level, this book is for you! I own both the VB.NET and C#.NET versions and I highly recommend either one.
Outstanding ASP.NET Case Study.......2005-10-15
ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution, C# Edition by Marco Bellinaso & Kevin Hoffman is one of the most USABLE books I have seen. I stress the word USABLE because most books are either reference manuals or just teaching tools. Either one need is hit upon or the other, whereas with this book you get to have your cake and eat it too!
The whole design of this book revolves around designing a web site from the ground up, all using ASP.NET with C# as the programming language of choice. The authors assume that you begin with nothing and you need to have all the parts of your web site hit upon to get this up and running for corporate or personal use. Since .NET is still a very new tool, this book is a very helpful resource to have for any and all web developers.
The Authors break the book up into the following parts:
Design of the overall layout, database, look and feel
Setting up basic foundations like CSS, navigation, etc
Editing and viewing all files that make up the site hierarchy
A look at managing news (information displayed to the user)
How advertising can be set up to bring in revenue
Creating and displaying polls on your site
Working with Mailing Lists
Managing a Forum
Deploying the site to the world
A discussion of different data stores that can be used
The writing in this book is very clear-cut and easy to follow. Using the code supplied in this book, the user can modify as they see fit and get their own site up and running in no time.
As an ASP.NET case study, this is the best book that I have seen to follow a site from birth to adulthood. This is a fantastic book for all C#, ASP.NET, web developers and it's a great addition to your current staple of related programming books.
***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
A reference book for developing a commercial web site.......2005-10-07
I did not like the layout of the matiral, a bit clombsy but as a refernce book for finding out how to develop a commercial web site it sure does the work.
Great book... but definitely not for beginners.......2005-07-08
This book is supposed to be used by intermediate-to-experienced .NET programmers. If you have known almost everything about .NET and had some experience developing real-life web application, you see this book worth reading.
It covers a lot of matters in developing a typical ASP.NET web site. The book goes from module to module, and in each module the approach is problem-design-solution. I dont think I saw much use of design patterns, which is something I desparately want to know how to apply, but the design is generally good and specific to ASP.NET. In other words, it takes advantage of ASP.NET in terms of event models, code behind, custom controls, configuration settings, and ADO.NET of course... About using ADO.NET, it is not just simply and directly binding database to DataGrid, DataList. Instead, the authors did a good job in deciding where to use ADO.NET features and where to use object-oriented features.
The book also covers data modeling to the level of stored procedure, triggers, relationships, transactions... This makes the development process look more professional and integrated.
Though there existed some bugs in the code and the book itself takes time and hard to read, i strongly recommend this book to any one who pursues a real good career in .NET.
Great book with one huge error in C# version.......2004-09-28
I bought this book some time ago. My printing is November 2002. I like the book, and learned a lot, but in my printing there is at least one glaring error in the usage of the 'using' keyword. On page 159 and at least two other pages it's used similarly to this:
using(DataSet roles = SomeFunctionThatReturnsDataSet())
{
return roles;
}
The implication of the above code is that somehow roles will magically be disposed when no longer needed due to the fact that it was created within a using block. In reality, it is disposed immediately on exit from the using block.
The only reason that the code works is that the DataSet dispose method only releases some remoting related resources, and DataSet does not throw an AlreadyDisposed exception (as it should) when methods are called on it after it has been disposed. If that behavior of DataSet changes in the future, any code that tries to use roles after it is returned from within the using block will fail.
I posted this on a site dedicated to this book but no one seemed very interested.
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