The Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational and Medical Use

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This guide offers methods for growers who want to maximize the yield and potency of their crop. It explains the “Screen of Green” technique that gives a higher yield using fewer plants, an important development for American growers who, if caught, are penalized according to number of plants. The Cannabis Grow Bible is an authoritative source that features almost 200 color and black-and-white photographs, charts, and tables. With an emphasis on the day-to-day aspects of maintaining a garden and European expertise, this book ensures that growers will enjoy a successful harvest.

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The Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational and Medical Use. By Greg Green .......2007-09-13

The book has easy to understand, in-depth information. Chapter 18, "Important Cannabis Issues", is a must read for the Entire world!

Let's you know what you're getting into..........2007-06-09

I've been writing about cannabis for years now and thought I should find out what's going on with cultivation. I do not have a green thumb and I've never really grown anything more complicated than a tomato. What I like about this book is the realistic appraisal of all the challenges related to cultivation. The details about coaxing the plant into existence are splendid. So many growing guides, websites, and magazine articles imply that the process is relatively effortless. It is not. Even when cannabis is re-legalized, I can see that this task is beyond me.

I was particularly struck by all the outrageous hassles that have nothing to do with the plant and everything to do with prohibition. Big sections on security, sea of green growing to keep the number of plants to a minimum, carbon filters for preventing the detection of odors...It's insane. I love that growers have shown such ingenuity and skill, but can't help wondering what they could have done to improve the plant itself if they hadn't spent all this time and energy on secrecy.

Users should read this book simply to further their appreciation of the plant and the cultivators. The book should also get them motivated to work for the repeal of prohibition because each section makes it obvious that cannabis could be better and cheaper if these horticulturists could devote their time to more important matters than avoiding detection.

Non-users should at least thumb through this book. If they can understand that cultivators are willing to endure the ridiculous irritations that prohibition creates, they will know that any attempt to legislate this plant out of existence is doomed to failure.

This is an exciting read.......2007-01-09

I have yet to 'feild' test this books info yet, but I couldn't put it down. I read it front to back right away and have been designing/planing while reading. I never thought I'd get so into horticulture. This book has me really excited about growing canibus becaused it's so much more than putting some seeds in some soil and watering it. There is a real science/art to growing WELL and this book seems to cover it all from start to finish and after. There is practical help for those who wish to grow in countries where it's illegal, (sound advice from experianced people who grow and have done so for years). I haven't read any other books on this subject to compare it too but I am very pleased with this book and feel I don't need another with more info. To say there are a few gramarical errors in this book is an understatment, but I see this as a testiment to the quality of what they have grown, (or at least what the editor was smoking).

Excelent walkthrough of the overall growing process.......2006-11-08

The book is quite nice and easy to read. Most of the steps of the growing process are well explained and detailed. However, in some cases some begginers could find difficult to follow the book. Nice pics that help to understand some stuff, but no pics to help with solve the prolems, like nutrients or diseaseas problems...

It is a very nice book for begginers and a little advanced growers.... I Really recommend it!!!

Good Information presented in a very simple manner.......2006-10-29

Valuable resourse. Very easy reading. Lots of pictures and news clippings. A bit opinionated, but I liked it.

The Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational and Medical Use

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The Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational and Medical Use
Greg Green
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ASIN: 1931160589

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What role should political theory play in activating workers to engage in class struggle to extend participatory rights in the workplace and, in the process, expand and revitalize American democracy? Bachrach and Botwinick argue that the answer is to construct a theory of participatory democracy that would include a democratic concept of class struggle; a concept that provides workers and their allies an effective and legitimate course of political action. They see this concept not only as a means to encourage workers to become politically active to gain participatory rights, but also as a means to strengthen the democratic process as a whole. The authors contend that working-class struggle should be encouraged as a way of promoting the realignment of political parties along class lines and expanding citizen participation and public awareness of issues of national concern.

To illustrate their theory, the authors describe and evaluate worker self-management programs in Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, England, and the United States. Hoping to spur Americans to confront their crisis of democracy with boldness and imagination, Bachrach and Botwinick demonstrate that class politics is on the agenda and that the categories of class and class struggle are now up for democratic definition in a way that is unique in this country.

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The hosting of sports events, be they large international events or smaller niche interest events, has huge and long-lasting impacts on the local environment, economy and industry.

Strategic Sports Event Management: An international approach provides students and event managers in the industry with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and nature. The framework offers a planning process that can be used to firstly understand the importance of a strategic approach, and secondly how to implement strategies that can achieve successful sports events over the short and long-term.

Using international case studies such as the Sydney olympics 2000, Boardsurfing events in the UK, US and Australia, Manchester Commonwealth Games 2002, Salt Lake City Winter Olympics 2002 and Athen Olympics 2004, this text looks at:

* The organisations involved such as the IOC, FIFA and IAAF, and their interactions with charities, teh media and promoters.
* The planning process; short term and long term benefits, and evaluations.
* Operational strategies including IT, communications, equipments and personnel.

* The importance of long-term as well as short term strategic plans and the impact of hosting sports events.
* Builds a conceptual framework for the planning, organising, managing and evaluating of sports events.
* International cases and examples, of both large and small sports events, from first-hand experience and research.

Central Arkansas shoots, scores: sporting events are single biggest piece of Little Rock area tourism.: An article from: Arkansas Business

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Central Arkansas shoots, scores: sporting events are single biggest piece of Little Rock area tourism.: An article from: Arkansas Business
Nate Hinkel
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Event Management: For Tourism, Cultural, Business and Sporting Events

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Event Management: For Tourism, Cultural, Business and Sporting Events
Lynn Van Der Wagen
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Professional Meeting Management: Comprehensive Strategies for Meetings, Conventions and Events: Pf Bound Version
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ASIN: 1862505071

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This is the book for anyone wishing to enter the rapidly growing field of event management. Event management is quite different from ordinary business management. Most business managers can make and learn from their mistakes. Not so event managers. Events typically have high costs and high risks. Events must be right the first time. There are no second chances, and there are no opportunities for the manager to plan, organise, train, coach, empower and delegate over an extended period.

Business projects and new product development now culminate in events, while high-level business meetings, seminars, conferences and exhibitors are viewed as events. Senior managers realise that special skills are required for the planning of these expensive and often one-off occasions. And, of course, there are thousands of festivals, and many thousands of weddings, parties, celebratory and sporting events every year, all of which require expert management.

Event Management for Tourism, Cultural, Business and Sporting Events covers all the skills students will need to become a successful event manager. From this book they will learn how to design, plan, market and stage an event. They will learn how to manage staff and staffing problems and how to ensure the safety of everyone involved. And learn what they need to know about legal compliance, risk management, financial control, and how to evaluate the success of the events they stage.

The Listener's Companion: Great Composers and Their Works
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Entertaining and interesting read about the Classics.

Fascinating, but Poorly Edited

The Listener's Companion: Great Composers and Their Works
Nicolas Slonimsky , and Electra Slonimsky Yourke
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Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time

Thesaurus Of Scales And Melodic Patterns (Text)

ASIN: 0825672783
Release Date: 2002-04-01

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Renowned for his literary style as well as his musical scholarship, Nicolas Slonimsky wrote many program notes and articles for newspapers and other periodicals, in addition to his well-known books. These shorter writings, edited by Slonimsky's daughter, Electra Yourke, are collected for the first time in this excellent introduction to the classical repertoire, from Bach to Shostakovich. Arranged chronologically by composer, the chapters begin with biographical sketches and go on to describe some of each composer's most popular and imporant works.

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Entertaining and interesting read about the Classics........2006-08-05

I first learned of Nicolas Slonimsky through his book, "Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns," which turned out to be an invaluable resource for me, and I wanted to know more about the man behind it. I had no idea at the time that he could write, much less write with such a distinctive and entertaining style as his. "The Listener's Companion" contains more of his great literary genius, and combines humor with history as he talks about the classic composers and their works.

The introduction included is a great read, as Slonimsky has an "interview" with himself. But I most enjoyed reading about some of my favorite composers, including Bach, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky. It is well organized and the composers are listed in chronological order. Apparent through the entire book is Slonimsky's indefatigable pursuit of getting facts right while others have got them wrong (even, as he explains in his introduction, in major encyclopedias). His literally style is quick-witted but informative, a potent combination that keeps the reader coming back for more.

Overall I believe this is a valid addition to the Slonimsky "canon." It was (and continues to be) great fun reading about the composers and their highlighted works, as well as marveling over Slonimsky's pure technique. The short yet complete biographies of the composers are magnificent, including the tales of gossip contained in each of them! If you are interested in the classics or are a fan of Slonimsky, or even just a fan of good entertaining writing, get this book.

Fascinating, but Poorly Edited.......2004-10-31

Sometimes when a great composer or writer dies his followers and heirs bring out some of his unfinished or lesser works. Such is the case here. Slonimsky, whose 'Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians' and 'Music since 1900' should be on every musiclover's shelves, was a musical polymath who spent most of his career as a musicologist and writer on music. When he died at over 100 years of age in 1995 his manuscripts were given to the Library of Congress where they remain more or less uncatalogued. His daughter, Electra Slonimsky Yourke, with some others, went through boxes and boxes of his things in order to rescue and bring to light some of his occasional writings about composers and their works. She assembled this collection under the title 'The Listener's Companion' and it was published in 2002. She says in her foreword that there were often several essays bearing on the same composer or work because Slonimsky, among other things, wrote program notes for orchestras, liner notes for recordings and so on. Consequently some of the pieces presented here are actually cobbled together from several articles. Hence one of the problems with the book. There are numbers of repetitions, often within the same article. For instance, here are two sentences from the article on Sergei Prokofiev: 'Prokofiev decided to play his own [first] piano concerto for the commencement exercises at the conservatory,' and, three paragraphs later, 'In 1914, he played his First Piano Concerto as a graduation piece at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.' [Slonimsky, a compulsive editor and fact-checker, would be horrified.] This carelessness is mildly irritating but it does not detract too severely from what is otherwise typically interesting Slonimskian prose. I've collected much of what he wrote not only for the information contained but also for the sheer joy of his style. There was, concealed behind his scholarly façade, an imp of equal importance, and that makes reading him a constant delight; one never knows what will pop up and make one chuckle. Another aspect of his style was the use of unusual words--he had a incomparable command of English although it was not his first language. Where else would you, in an otherwise straightforward passage about the second movement of Ravel's G Major Piano Concerto, encounter 'the gemmation of the austere melody and its florification are remarkable'? I don't know about you, but that tickles me; Slonimsky is playing with language the way a kitten plays with a ball of yarn. As Ms Yourke suggests in her foreword, it pays to read Slonimsky with a dictionary at hand.

The book is organized by composer, in chronological order thus: Bach - Handel - Haydn - Mozart - Beethoven - Mendelssohn - Wagner - Brahms - Tchaikovsky - Rimsky-Korsakov - Mahler - Debussy - R. Strauss - Schoenberg - Ravel - Bartók - Stravinsky - Prokofiev - Shostakovich. There is an introductory essay about each composer and then individual essays about some of their works. As you can see, the book is not all-inclusive and, indeed, under each composer there are major omissions. For instance, Beethoven's 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 6th symphonies do not rate an entry. One reason for this, of course, is the source of the essays--an uncatalogued hodgepodge of writings written for specific occasions. Still, one gets a good sense of the style of each composer, some real insights into the pieces under scrutiny, and lots of gossipy tales about all of them. Slonimsky was nothing if not a good storyteller.

So, this is not one of Slonimsky's major works, and it is not even a necessary work, as these things go, but it is at least generally fascinating and revealing, the sort of book to dip into as the need or desire arises. I've spent many enjoyable moments with it and expect that will continue.

Scott Morrison

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An epic poem celebrating the activist, visionary, and original poetic mind, Allen Ginsberg--in many ways the avatar of the Beat Generation--inaugurated the countercultural zeitgeist of the '50s and '60s with his brazen poetry and fluorescent persona. In this allusive, inspired narrative poem, Edward Sanders, one of the Beats' favorite sons and a Ginsberg contemporary and friend, charts a path through what he calls the "Forest Ginsberg."

An unsentimental elegy, a grand tribute, a masterful blazon, The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg shares with us the man, his art, and his times in the confident folksy cadence of a Ginsberg intimate and fellow poet, a man who shares the ecumenical outlook and resolute social conscience of the king of the Beats. Sanders takes us chronologically through history as witnessed, reflected, and created by Ginsberg, introducing us to Ginsberg's friends and foes and the luminaries and common men alike at the center and on the periphery of his sphere. This is a dazzling portrait of a man and his passionately promulgated world view that mines the riches of the literary, cultural, and political history of the 20th century to celebrate the poet whose influence pervades history and whose history comments on an aspect of who we are as Americans.

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Experience the Beat!.......2005-07-19

Ed Sanders is the child of the Beat poets and visionaries. In this book he celebrates the greatest of them all - Allen Ginsberg. The genius of this book is that Sanders may have invented a totally new genre of writing - the poetic documentary. Poetry is not read but experienced, thus going through this book is like being immersed in the sights and sounds of Ginsberg's life from the 1920s to the 1990s. Therefore, this book comes off as more potent, more immediate and more intense than reading a "straight" biography, often coloured by the interpretive lens of the biographer. This is a book that returns Ginsberg to us once more - the rebel, the madman, the Good Samaritan and the poet.

Another great poem by Ed Sanders.......2001-08-13

Sanders has perfected a unique style of narrative poetry. This book tells the story of Ginsberg's life as a private citizen and as a public figure, but it also chronicles his development as a poet. For those daunted by the Collected or even the Selected Poems, Sanders usefully points out what he thinks are Ginsberg's best poems as he goes along. Although I did not intend to when I sat down with it, I ended up reading it straight through to the end. A very moving ending it was, too.

The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg: A Narrative Poem.(Review): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction

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The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg: A Narrative Poem.(Review): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Brooke Horvath
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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on March 22, 2001. The length of the article is 633 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: The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg: A Narrative Poem.(Review)
Author: Brooke Horvath
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 21 Issue: 1 Page: 207

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Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist
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Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist
Dan Rather , and Mickey Herskowitz
Manufacturer: Quill (Harper)
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The Camera Never Blinks
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Never dull, always interesting

memogate anybody

What He is Really Like

Those Were The Days

intersting reading

The Camera Never Blinks
Dan Rather
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: 0345353633
Release Date: 1987-09-12

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Never dull, always interesting.......2004-11-24

This is a great insider's perspective into network televison. For those potential readers who are blinded by religious dogmatism and a belief that most journalists are liberals who want to destroy America, may be this is not for you.

memogate anybody.......2004-09-28

Dan Rather writes excellent stories, including those which are completely fabricated. Take the new "memo" which Rather seemed to have come across. Not only was the memo found to be false, but Rather is a suspect for writing it. Rather should resign and at least keep his dignity, and rid the american public of at least one liberal news anchor.

What He is Really Like.......2003-03-30

The Prologue tells about the time DR was at a news conference and was asked by President Nixon "are you running for something?". DR replied "No sir, Mr President, are you?" (a classic response to an accusatory question). Nixon had a habit of diverting or asking for a repeat to give himself more time (p.10). But this interchange gave DR a reputation, and recognition.

Chapter 1 is about his beginnings, and learning journalism at Sam Houston State Teacher's College at Huntsville TX. DR grew up in the Houston area, the oldest in the family. His father read a lot of newspapers. His college professor didn't "teach", he gave them assignments and kept them writing stories. Learning by doing certainly worked for DR. The rest of this chapter has interesting stories about his college life. Chapter 2 has DR at a CBS affiliate TV station in 1961. The most important ingredient was live local coverage; this attracts and holds viewers. DR was sent to cover Hurricane Carla on the gulf, the biggest and most dangerous of the century, which caused high tides and flooding rains. The warnings and the evacuation of 350,000 people, minimized the loss of lives. Afterwards DR was hired by CBS News, even if he didn't rescue a drowning horse (pp.47-8). Chapter 3 tells of his reporting from Oxford Miss on 9/30/1962 when James Meredith went to the University, and other places. Chapter 4 tells of his reporting on the civil rights issue. DR doubts the authenticity of the secret tapes on Dr ML King (p.101).

Chapter 5 tells of his assignment in Dallas on 11/22/1963. He was stationed beyond the triple underpass to pick up film; something happened and cars sped by. DR returned to the station to cover the news. This shows reporting behind th scenes (pp.124-8). After a confidential viewing of the Zapruder film, DR went back to the station and told of its contents (p.133). Checkbook Journalism? In England paying for news was a way of life (p.141). Magazines were doing it for years. Chapter 6 continues the reports from Dallas, and the behind the scenes events in news reporting. The conflict at the local TV station was resolved. DR then tells about his years as a foreign correspondent in London and elsewhere. Chapter 10 summarizes his year in Vietnam, 1965-6. "By the time the information is passed up the chain of command, everyone puts the best possible face on it." Chapter 11 starts with his meeting with HR Haldeman: DR was a "Lyndon Johnson, Texas liberal Democrat". No need for facts since they knew everything! His meeting with Erlichman and Haldeman (pp.248-9) does not honor this pair. Does it reflect unfavorably on Nixon's judgment? Page 250 tells of the effect of Chappaquiddick: Nixon moved further to the right. Was it an accident? After their loss in the 1970 elections Nixon used other Dirty Tricks to try to hang on to power.

Chapter 12 is about Watergate, "the greatest political story of your time". The Washington PD is closely controlled by the White House, as in a one-industry town. Page 264 tells of the coded questioning used with government sources: they won't lie, but they won't tell you anything unless you already know it. The story of President Nixon shoving Ron Ziegler, then denying it after the film was shown makes me wonder if Nixon was psychotic? That would explain some of his actions, and why he was pardoned (p.273). Chapter 13 says television news is a "headline service"; anyone who depends on it entirely for news is not doing their best. "Many Americans really do not want to be told what their government is doing, any more than they would want to know what went into the grinder to make the hot dog they are eating" (p.336). A rather sad commentary on some Americans! Do they deserve their higher taxes and perhaps illnesses? Page 338 tells why print is superior to broadcast in preserving the news.

Those Were The Days.......2002-02-02

This is a rich story of Dan Rather's early career, when he used to actually investigate events and report on them, as opposed to sitting in a chair reading a teleprompter. The activities related in this book all took place before Dan fell in love with the Clintons and became just another media toady for the Democratic Party. Love your hair, Dan. Enjoy.

intersting reading.......2001-04-30

For those of you who want to know how it was to be a reporter back in the 70s and 80s, this book should be interesting to you. As a reporter of the 90s myself, I found it to be entirely a different world.

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The Camera Never Blinks
Dan Rather
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The Camera Never Blinks
Dan Rather with Mickey Herskowitz
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THE CAMERA NEVER BLINKS - ADVENTURES OF A TV JOURNALIST

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THE CAMERA NEVER BLINKS - ADVENTURES OF A TV JOURNALIST
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THE CAMERA NEVER BLINKS ADVENTURES OF A TV JOURNALIST

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The Camera Never Blinks Twice / Haywire / The White Lions of Timbavati / The Sky is Falling / Flavio (Reader's Digest Today's Nonfiction Bestsellers)

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The Camera Never Blinks Twice / Haywire / The White Lions of Timbavati / The Sky is Falling / Flavio (Reader's Digest Today's Nonfiction Bestsellers)
Dan Rather , Mickey Herskowitz , Brooke Hayward , Chris McBride , Arthur Weingraten , and Gordon Paris
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Dan Rather , and Mickey Herskowitz
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There is better one.......2006-12-14

Try Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterpise Application Architecture.
It has much better coverage in more useful context.
Also you can look at Hibernate or iBatis project for real application
of these patterns.

Useful patterns and interesting concepts.......2004-12-11

The book presented 25 patterns grouped in 5 areas, decoupling (conceptual and architectural level), resource, input/output, cache and concurrency.

The most interesting patterns are in resource and cache. Decoupling and concurrency patterns (e.g., data accessor, active domain object, layers, transactions, optimistic/pessimistic lock etc.) are well known and the contents are a bit too light to be very useful, yet the concepts are giving readers some directions.

In resource patterns, some interesting patterns are presented, particularly resource timer automatically releases inactive resource, retryer enables fault-tolerance for data access operations.

In cache patterns, cache collector purges entries whose presence in the cache no longer provides any performance benefits; cache replicator replicates operations across multiple caches.

There are some areas to be improved, first, author should consolidate pattern names with other pattern authors, e.g., data accessor is also known as data access object, active domain object is similar to active record, paging iterator is close to value list handler (though value list handler is more decoupled from underlying data store), the point is, one of the important benefits and purposes for documenting patterns is to build common vocabularies among designers, using different names for same or similar patterns is defeating this purpose. The same pattern name should be used and may be presented as a variation of the original pattern.

Secondly, the examples given in the book is a bit too simple, sometimes, the examples might not justify or validate the interface abstraction is generic enough to handle real world problems, so some tweaking and modification to the pattern would be expected.

Overall, the book is well organized, and contents are easy to follow, most patterns come with class diagrams and sequence diagrams. Good for designers who want to decouple data access from rest of the application, utilize cache to minimize data access and thus boost application performance, manage resources in an efficient and leaking-proof way.

Great book on persistence theory.......2004-05-11

I'm in the middle of developing yet another persistence framework for a client, having done it a couple of times before. Each time I refine my ideas about how to do it. I must say that this book has a thorough examination of issues and certainly food for thought as well as answers to a couple of questions I've had.

However, I wouldn't say it's a complete design (which it doesn't claim to be). I still found myself picking and choosing which patterns to use as is, which to modify to my liking, and which to discard.

Also, I was left with the impression that the book didn't give enough coverage to handling collections of objects. The material is mostly geared toward working with a single object, which is understandable. I just think it would have been helpful to have more discussion about handling collections. For example, what should happen when you request to load an object, but the criteria you passed to the loading mechanism results in data for more than one object being retrieved from the database? Hand back the first object? Raise an exception? If it's covered in the book, I missed it.

Further, I would like to see more discussion about WHEN to refresh an object from the underlying database and when to save to the database. I always struggle with that timing issue. Having studied EJB, I like how entity beans keep your bean in synch with the underlying database. But the EJB container intercepts calls and makes those things happen. When coding the persistence layer myself, that's not an option. So, again, this is something I'd like to see some light shed on.

Overall, though, a great book if you're interested in reading up on persistence layer patterns.

Good design pattern book in data access !!.......2004-02-29

I am in the process of writing a thesis proposal that utilizing JDBC and TableModeler to access various database platforms as a prototype.

While prototyping the model, I encountered a lot of consideration of what is the best approach for certain implementation (mainly on JDBC). While looking into a few of designing books, I found this Data Access Patterns book that fits into my research needs. I have read other book such as Designing Flexible Object Oriented System with UML and not able to apply the concept or see solution in it. It is simply a conceptual book. No practical examples at all.

Mr. Nock has explained the design patterns very clearly in each chapter by using JDBC as a media. The examples are very easy to understand as compared to Design Patterns Explained. I am not able to understand codes that implementing graphics in that book.

Mr. Nock addressed the pros and cons of the patterns. Many techie books do not even bother to talk about pros and cons.

The author has chosen the right title for the book, I realized that many times author received a poor rating because reader expect different contents based on the title of the book.

The feature I liked the most - the ¡§Applicability¡¨ section on each chapter. Unlike other patterns book, the author explains the concept and gives example of "what" and "when" to use certain design pattern. This section is pretty much the answer for my thesis obstacles. The answer is in this book!!

Minor typos do exist such as in page 390 roll back instead of rollback.

In concurrency chapter, author may have mis-used the term of updates locking. It should be Lost Updates instead of Missing updates. Concurrency chapter looks like UDB Lock Concurrency architecture.

Additional note - would like to see the quality aspect in each of the patterns.

Overall, the book is very well structured, explained and thoughtful.

Thank you Mr. Nock !! This is a perfect book for my thesis.

Looking forward to read your future publish.

Regards,

Excellent and Easy To Read.......2004-02-20

I have to disagree with the previous review. I will try to explain why I think 'b88zhou' review is inadequate after presenting my overview of this book.

After reading numerous pattern books, it is nice to see a pattern book with very good organization.

Each pattern is presented with the following subsections.

* Description
* Context
* Applicability
* Structure
* Iteractions
* Consequences
* Strategies
* Sample Code
* Related Patterns and Technology.

I specifically like 'Consequence' section because it outlines the 'bad' consequence of adopting the patter. This goes with the mantra of design patterns - there is no one good pattern. You trade off one design for another depending on the context of your domain.

Also each pattern is accompanied by UML class diagrams and UML sequence diagrams - this is a big plus in understanding pattern.

The sample code is written in Java/JDBC so you may need to understand Java but I believe this pattern is still relevant to ADO.NET and C++. [ ADO.Net does offer connected and disconnected database operation so some patterns may not be relevant - plus, event/delegate will aid in some patterns.]

Specific to what the previous reviewer say - here are my rebuttals.

>> Why do you want to make queries and database updates into factories? Looking at the sample code, does it really help decoupling?

The previous reviewer mentioned as 'factories' is the derivation of 'AbstractFactory'. If you do not understand why AbstractFactory aids in decoupling from the concrete implementation, I think you should re-read GoF book. The author uses AbstractFactory pattern extensively in context of "Input and Output Parameter" and "Cache Patterns". I do admit that sometimes "Input and Output Parameter patterns" may not need to use AbstractFactory but if you read 'Domain Assembler' pattern you will understand why. From Domain Assembler, you can see the benefit of having AbstractFactories for Selection, Domain Object, and Update -- assembling all these factories via interface not concrete implmentation - a basic idea of design to interface instead concrete implementation.

>> The "Cache Patterns" does not solve the problem of preventing stale entry or even attempt to describe how to invalidate cache entry, so no matter how efficient you get, the cache is not guaranteed to be up-to-date /correct.

Please re-read 'Cache Collector'. The pattern could have different name like 'Cache Garbage Collector'. He talks about how you can 'purge' old data. Also re-read 'Cache Replicator' for how to sync the cached data in distributed system.

>> I'm surprised "stored procedure" is not mentioned at all.

I guess you have not done too many DB oriented projects. The stored procedure is evil and add little value to OO programming. But if you want the stored procedure, just replace 'SELECT' or 'UPDATE' statements to whatever stored procedures you want to call. So I don't think you can add much with SP.

>> mature object/relational frameworks like EOF (Apple WebObjects) or TopLink

This book is not about Java Data Object or OR mapping. Object-Relational mapping tool is another beast.

I would recommend this book highly to anyone doing DB application development.

Data Access Patterns: Database Interactions in Object-Oriented Applications
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Data Access Patterns: Database Interactions in Object-Oriented Applications
Clifton Nock
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000OI9R8Y

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