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Out of date. And you must reconfigure your computer to get the software to run........2006-03-21
The WSAD included is out of date and when I installed the application it would not run. But don't take my word for it. Search the internet for, "The license could not be found. websphere studio application developer 5.0 can not start". (The current version is 5.1.1.)
The IBM web site says to change the date on your PC to May 1, 2005 then install. It does install and will run, but when you reset the date on your PC the license has expired!
Instructions to configure a working database are inaccurate and do not work when followed verbatim. Some of the illustrations and step-by-step instructions no not match the actual screens displayed. The design information is good, but if you are looking for a book to learn how to start using WSAD, this is not the answer.
Dont buy this book.......2005-02-18
The title is "Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere" but the book does not teach you how to programm with IBM WebSphere. The book covers very high level and briefly leaving you in the dark.
Quality Content.......2004-07-30
The quality of the content is awesome. I am looking forward to the Third Edition.
The Content Far Overshadows the Errors.......2004-07-09
OK, so this isn't a beginner's text. It has literally thousands (yes, thousands) of typos. Why 5 stars? This is simply the best book on explaining and demonstrating J2EE concepts that I've read, and I've read many.
It's virtually impossible to find this much valuable info in one place. And please, don't bash this book until you've read the whole thing (which you may need to do more than once!).
The code on the CD works. As far as showing incomplete printed examples, do you really want every line of code printed in the book? Given the level of developer this book targets, they strike a fine balance of what goes on the existing 900 pages and what can be browsed on the CD. The only topic I had trouble digesting was their discussion on Mapper Objects (Ch. 16), but it's easy enough to understand the code.
I have yet to find a large technical book without lots of errors. I would rate the editing job on this book as 1.5 stars because of the abundance of seemingly careless typos. However, they're minor annoyances that don't detract from this technically correct marvel of a book. As developers, we need useful information. This book more than delivers and is worth every penny.
Incomplete hands-on exercises, poorly written.......2004-07-05
Firstly I'm surprised at the rave-reviews that this book has got on amazon. The great reviews drove me to actually use this book to learn websphere. Sadly, I'm very disappointed with the book. (I have previously developed J2EE apps on JBoss, and WebLogic so I was not reading it as a novice reader). Also a disclaimer: I have read the book through online subscription at SafariBooksOnline, some of my criticism may not be applicable to the printed version.
The begin my critique, the book attempts too much while accomplishing very litte. This is a book about J2EE programming with WebSphere, it should have been kept that way. Instead the authors try to provide introduction (at times having errors) for the J2EE technologies and make a complete mess of it. It takes great effort on the part of the reader to gather the core information that relates to programming/configuring WSAD. The book could have been much better if it included more hands-on exercises and cut out the crappy introduction to "enterprise concepts".
Secondly, about the examples. The examples are not complete (they often refer to the CD-ROM and I was reading the book on SafariBooksOnline, so this may not be the case when you buy the printed book). Moreover the explanation is in very high-sounding terms at times which makes it difficult to focus on the point that is being made.
This is definitely not a book for novice; and for the experienced it is a waste of time to sift through loads of nonsense before making any sense of whats written.
I have given it 2 stars because some of the hands-on stuff sections actually worked when I tried them, and the GUI snapshots were helpful.
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Financial Innovation and Risk Sharing
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Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale have contributed substantially to the study of financial innovation, developing economic models to address the question of whether the market provides institutions and opportunities for individuals to share risks efficiently. In this book they assemble some of their key papers along with a five-chapter overview that not only synthesizes their work but provides a historical and institutional review and a discussion of alternative approaches as well.
The lengthy overview surveys the authors' approach to financial innovation, principally their development of a basic theory of risk sharing in an economy with incomplete markets. The first two chapters summarize the history of innovation and illustrate the types of innovation, innovators, and motives for innovation. Chapters three and four look at industrial organization approaches to innovation and outline the authors' theory. The fifth chapter discusses other approaches and an agenda for future research.
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While international capital flows are now well liberalized, markets for goods remain segmented. To investigate how financial innovation may relieve the effects of this segmentation on risk sharing, we examine a series of two-country economies with internationally segmented good markets, distinguished by the available financial securities. Sufficient conditions for efficiency include complete international financial markets together with liberalized international financial flows. Under these conditions, heterogeneous agents from the same country may use securities as a substitute for the international shipment of goods. This allows them to partially circumvent the segmentation, allowing for efficient risk sharing.
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This single-volume reference book provides a useful selection of Code and Regulations sections and clear annotations in the form of Editorial Summaries. These concise annotations explain analyze and cross-reference topics to help students fully understand the intricacies of the Code. The text is an ideal alternative to the traditional bulky and expensive multi-volume set of Code and Regulations. It is a perfect supplement for any West's Federal Taxation text and is an excellent primary text for the Federal Taxation course that stresses a Code & Regulations approach. Appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate-level courses including graduate courses in law schools.
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Ideal for those with little or no background in entomology–this book combines, in a single volume–general principles of entomology and modern principles of insect pest management–including factual details and specific examples.
Features up-to-date coverage on environmentally sound insecticides; the Transgenic plant controversy; Pest management systems; Newly released and recently discontinued products and updated insecticides; Current government regulations and labeling of microbial pesticides, plant pesticides and biochemical pesticides; and Developments in genetic engineering and plant bio technology.
For those with little or no background in entomology who want a single combined resource of both general entomology and applied aspects.
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ALL NEEDS of a PLANT PROTECTION&ENTOMOLOGIY is AVAILABLE.......2002-12-09
I would be most appreciate to informe that "ENTOMOLOGY AND PEST MANAGEMENT" has been used as a comrehensive text for three courses in dep. of plant protection,fac. of agriculture,Zabol university,Iran by me,Ph.D OF entomology and faculty member of Zabol University&Gorgan University of Agriculture.Third edition of this book has translated to Persian(in press) and Unfortunatly this new edition of book not available in Iran and many difficulties are in Iran for book buying.I am waiting and expecting to recieve preforma or other information to having this book impatiencly&eagerly. with best regard Javad Karimi(Dep. of Plant Protection;Fac. of Agriculture,Tehran University,Karaj,Iran)
Good Introduction to Entomology.......2001-08-28
Dr. Pedigo's book is one of the better general entomology/ pest management textbooks that I have read. It is written in an understandable format and provides a good introduction to the structure, function, taxonomy, and applied ecology of insects. This volume is most appropriate for the undergraduate student interested in entomology although it would also be a handy addition to a graduate student's library as well. As with many introductory entomology textbooks, the taxonomic keys are very limited. I would recommend Borror, Triplehorn, and Johnson's: An introduction to the study of insects to anyone who desires a book with a good set of taxonomic keys.
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This book fills the need for a comprehensive treatment of rice entomology under one cover. The contributors to this book, drawn from various related disciplines, discuss the fundamentals of rice entomology, the biology and ecology of rice insects and the various techniques of rice insect control , namely, host plant resistance, cultural, mechanical and physical controls, predators and parasitoids, pathogens and insecticides.
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In the Wake of the Green Revolution: Environmental and Socio-economic Consequences of Intensive Rice Agriculture: the Problems of Weeds in Muda, Malaysia
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Rice Insects: Management Strategies (Springer Series in Experimental Entomology)
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Due to the worldwide importance of rice as a crop plant, the biology of rice pests is of great interest to agricultural research. This timely book brings together contributions from the fields of entomology, agronomy, population ecology, and biostatistics to provide a comprehensive survey of rice-insect interaction. Among the topics discussed are - crop loss assessment - economic thresholds and injury levels for incest pests - mosquito leafhoppers and planthoppers population dynamics - pheromone utilization - techniques for predator evaluation - chemical based for insect resistance applications of tissue culture - systems analysis and - rice pestmanagement. With its emphasis on experimental techniques of pest analysis and control, Rice Insects: Management Strategies will be a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners alike.
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Rodent pests have a strong capacity to recover rapidly from imposed reductions in abundance, but it is unclear how populations compensate to removal when farmers apply rodent control. The response of two rat species to rodent control was monitored using regular live-trapping in an irrigated lowland mixed rice agroecosystem. Rice field rats, Rattus argentiventer (52% of rodent captures), and lesser rice field rats, Rattus losea (29%), were removed using trap-barrier systems (TBS) at two sites while rice crops were present. The TBS was a plastic fence that enclosed a small field planted 3 weeks prior to the surrounding fields and set with multiple-capture cage-traps to capture rats that were attracted to the early-planted crop. Demographic responses of rats were compared to two untreated sites. There was a reduction in abundance of rodents on treated sites relative to untreated sites during the summer rice crop (by 45% and 28% for R. argentiventer and R. losea, respectively) an increase in abundance during the winter season (31% and 69%), and a mixed response during the spring rice crop (39% decrease and 41% increase). There was an increase in the proportion of juveniles captured on treated sites relative to untreated sites post-treatment (148% and 158%) and the body mass was lower on treated sites post-treatment (males: 13% and 41%; females: 22% and 22%). Older, larger animals were removed by the TBS and the rodent populations were compensating through high recruitment of young and high immigration into treated sites. No clear patterns were observed in the occurrence of adult breeding females for either R. argentiventer or R. losea. Rodent management, should therefore, occur over large areas (>100 ha) to reduce the chance of reinvasion.
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This two-volume handbook presents advanced research and operational information about hard minerals and hydrocarbons. It provides information in an integrated, interdisciplinary manner, stressing case histories. It includes review chapters, illustrations, graphs, tables, and color satellite images that present the results of gravity, geodetic, and seismic surveys and of 3-D sea floor sub-bottom visualizations. The data was obtained using satellites, aircraft, and ships from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. Major topics addressed in these volumes include geophysical methods used to explore for hydrocarbons, advanced radiometric and electrical methods for hard mineral searches, the role of geotechnology and seismic acoustics in overcoming geological hazards in selecting drilling sites and pipeline routes, and remote sensing techniques used to determine the physical properties of sediments.
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Algebraic Renormalization: Perturbative Renormalization, Symmetries and Anomalies (Lecture Notes in Physics New Series M)
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This book provides a pedagogical and self-contained introduction to the algebraic method of renormalization in perturbative quantum field theory. This method is based on general theorems of renormalization, in particular on the Quantum Action Principle. It allows us to treat the problems of the renormalizability and the anomalies of models with local or global symmetries in terms of the algebraic properties of classical field polynomials. Several examples (e.g. topological models) are considered in some detail. One of the main advantages of this method, beyond its simplicity, is its great power, because no particular subtraction or regularization scheme preserving the symmetries of the problem is a priori required.
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Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers, and moral fables-all in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection. The best work yet from an author hailed as the heir to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.
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Huh?.......2007-09-30
I feel a little guilty being the only person giving this book a 1 so far. Honest to goodness, I just didn't get it. And I like David Sedares. I'm the person who guffaws loudly when no else gets a joke (or doesn't find something funny...).
I kept trying- I'd skip a story, move on to the next. About half way through, I gave up. I had a hard time following the story lines. I couldn't get to where the author needed me to be in order to find anything remotely humorous. Some of the stories seemed way out there.
I'm not hip, so maybe that was the issue. What can I say, everyone else seems to like it, so it must be me.
Saunders made me a fan of the short story.......2007-09-14
I had always been reluctant to read short stories. I have no idea why but this might be the first collection of short stories that I wasn't forced to read and I am truly glad I did.
Saunders is talented on so many levels. His stories flow well and he has the unique ability to say a lot without using a lot of words to do it. Saunders has a wickedly sardonic sense of humor and if you the least bit cynical about the future, you will love reading this book. The humor is very dark, so it's not for everyone.
After I finished, I went out and picked up Saunders' other books and in my opinion, this is by far his best. So if you are interested enough to buy one of his books, this is the one.
well what can i say about the run on words do they really need to make conjecture sense.......2007-09-10
must it really be coherent or can it just be diatribe's as it exits from the two braincells wich are throwing stones at each other just sort of spew out on to the page for us mere mortal to make somewhat of some sort of some type of sense even though. Well you get the idea SPARE ME YOUR GENIUS, PLEASE?...
A book full of fantastic stories, successes and failures both........2007-06-15
George Saunders is a man who - when he wants to - knows his way around a story. One needs look no farther than "Sea Oak," the crown jewel of his last collection of stories, "Pastoralia," to know that Saunders has a way with tapping the plight of contemporary man and owning it completely. When Saunders is on, his stories feel like reading the new classic literature of our generation: stories that will transcend this day that we live in and serve as more than mere snapshots. Other than "Sea Oak," Saunders caught snatches of this same success in the title story and "The End of FIRPO in the World," but was hampered somewhat by a tendency to retreat into the safe space of over-the-top kitsch and narration clouded by rumination.
In "In Persuasion Nation," Saunders demonstrates a frustratiing tendency to write meta-stories: that is, stories tied together by an overwhelming theme, or - worse - message. The first four stories - "I CAN SPEAK!", "My Flamboyant Grandson," "Jon," and "My Amendment" - fall victim to Saunders' willfullness as an author, to varying degrees. "My Amendment" is the worst offender, as a fictional letter that panders to the good common sense of a fictional editorial writer in the fictional letter-writer's attempts to outlaw "Samish-Sex Marriage," an idea that is neither original nor, particularly problemlatically, clever. You can almost hear the grating voice of Saunders, pandering to his audience, trying his very hardest to be endearing but also talk about "serious issues." "I CAN SPEAK!" fails for similar reasons, though it's main problem stems from inhabiting a sort of near-future fictional world ruled by advertisement and technology that Saunders, again, thinks is far more clever than it actually is. The best of this batch is probably "My Flamboyant Gradson," for successfully tapping an actual human connection and relying only heavily of exposition rather than exclusively. "Jon," despite some clever advertisment ideas that I'm sure ad agencies will consider in the coming years, falls just short of being compelling, partly due to length and partly due to Saunders' lack of grace with exposition in his imagined near-future.
But then the good ones start. "The Red Bow" comes out of nowhere and presents a totally feasible situation, alternatively fascinating and terrifying, that thrusts an unlikely hero into the spotlight in a human way that, heretofore in the collection, Saunders had proven himself incapable of achieving. "Christmas," a story about a teenaged youth working as a roofer, is much the same: Saunders is working with familiar clay, but working it in such a simple and appealing way that it doesn't matter. "Adams" is even the best of the trio for its punchiness and position as the shortest of the three - this is a one-two-three combo that left me reeling, and more importantly, wondering where this stuff had been in the first four stories.
The next story, "93990" - a fictional account of a medical experiment on chimps - is not, strictly speaking, a story, but it's miles and miles ahead of the two stories that follow it, stories that make me think that Saunders needs a better editor or a more stringent publisher. "Brad Carrigan, American" is a messy hodgepodge of ideas borrowed from the first three stories in this collection and the story that follows it, and utterly fails to forge any kind of emotion or lasting impression. "In Persuasion Nation" is worse, for its rambling, and its prattling, and its condescension. This is a story that tries to invoke the various characters from advertisements and have us believe that they live on a separate plain, living out their advertisements in an endless loop. When some of the downtrodden rebel, a corner of a wrapper of some fictional energy bar becomes a God-figure and berates a polar bear, who then tries to committ suicide. It's a cute idea, at best, but the execution is sloppy and tedious.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your viewpoint, Saunders then serves up two simply superb stories, in the form of the already-recognized "Bohemians" and the piece de resistance, "CommComm." The former made an appearance in the 2006 "Best American Short Stories" for a reason: it has an instantly timeless feeling to it, is the most effortless of the short stories in this colleciton, and is so apparently liminal so as to be out of place in a collection this self-satisfied. Then there's "CommComm," a story I suspect arose from the title, which manages to glean one of the few interesting ideas from the title story (repeating an experience over and over), turn that on its ear, and then portray two inherently human characters - a man with an incapacitated wife, and a man who clings too tightly to his faith - and humanize the freaking both them, in a way that is bound to break your heart into tiny pieces. When Giff talks about hating himself for pinching his wife, there better be a part of you that snaps off and falls away, or else there's a very real danger that you've become desensitized by the 11 stories that came before it.
"In Persuasion Nation" is too long, and sloppily organized, and poorly imagined, but goddamn if the man can't write a hell of a story when he puts his mind to what works. The last two stories in this collection are bound to be as good as any stories you read this year, and there are others earlier on that can do considerable damage from out of nowhere, too. It's just too bad that his creative leash is so long here; that we have to slog through the fantastically bad to get to the good.
Finding humor in corporate America........2007-04-10
George Saunders' short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and Harper's magazines, and his tragicomic, avant-garde writing is frequently compared to other great American social satirists including Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon. While his fiction typically focuses on consumerism and corporate culture (a culture synonymous with greed, materialism, conformity, competitiveness, environmental ignorance, and spiritual blindness), many of his stories also grapple with much larger moral questions, such as the vitality of human existence in a vacuous American culture. Reading IN PERSUASION NATION, Saunders' third collection of a dozen stories, is nothing short of an overwhelming experience. "The Red Bow" (in which a town suffers from pet-killing hysteria) won a 2004 National Magazine Award and and "Bohemians" (in which two Eastern European widows attempt to adjust to American suburbia) was included in The Best American Short Stories 2005. Recommended.
G. Merritt
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