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Novell's Guide to Troubleshooting NDS
Published in Paperback by John Wiley & Sons (01 October, 1999)
Authors: Peter Kuo and Jim Henderson
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Totally Recommended
This book is the best I have read on this subject. Its biggest asset is the fact it starts from the basics of NDS and builds on this information. It includes real world examples (which I found invaluable in both solving and understanding the problem) and all solutions are explained in "straight talking English". Can't wait for the next release !

The Definitive Source For NDS Troubleshooting
If you are responsible for a production NDS environment, READ THIS BOOK! It is fully updated for the latest NDS changes, and provides a thorough understading of NDS processes and troubleshooting methods. The only resource on NDS that is more comprehensive is Novell's Logic Source for NDS II.

An incredible resource for all CNE's!
Peter Kuo and Jim Henderson are awesome! If you liked their NDS Troubleshooting book, you'll love this Guide to Troubleshooting NDS. An easy read, this book provides background information on the NDS and how it actually works...in plain English. It builds upon this background information to include troubleshooting techniques to help you successfully manage and repair a NetWare network. It also includes easy to read tables with NDS Error codes, as well as DSTRACE and DSREPAIR switches with explanations in one convenient manual. As a side benefit, it includes a significant amount of information to help prepare for Novell's Certified Directory Engineer tests. Thanks for my new Bible guys!


Ethnic Notions: Black Images in the White Mind
Published in Paperback by Berkeley Art Center (1982)
Authors: Janette Faulkner, Robbin Henderson, Leon Litwack, Erskine Peters, Pamela Fabry, Adam David Miller, and Berkeley Art Center
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Examines racial stereotypes in commercial imagery
Ethnic Notions is a catalog of images exploring racist memorabilia from the collection of Jan Faulkner, examining racial stereotypes in commercial imagery from toys to sheet music. Over 200 items are examples of how the black image has been distorted over the years. The black and white images provide powerful testimony.

Explores American racial stereotypes in commercial imagery
Ethnic Notions: Black Images In The White Mind explores American racial stereotypes in commercial imagery, including toys, household items, postcards, sheet music, and advertisements. More than two hundred items showcased in these pages accurately depict the ways in which the black image was distorted and black people misrepresented in the broader American culture from 1847 to the present day in order to establish and reinforce the existing social discrepancies, justify discrimination, and perpetuate traditional majority/minority relationships in the county. Ethnic Notions is very highly recommended reading for Black Studies, social issues, and American cultural history reading lists and library reference collections.


Netware Directory Services Troubleshooting
Published in Paperback by New Riders Publishing (1995)
Authors: Jim Henderson and Peter Kuo
Amazon base price: $40.00
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The NDS Bible
This book covers all the syntax that you need to use on a day to day basis for supporting NDS without having to wade through 1500 pages to find them.

From correcting time, to the DSTRACE switches, error codes to object property lists.

I wouldn't want to be without it.

Clear and informative NDS "bible" - a must have
A complete reference on all the aspects of advanced netware administration. NDS, partitioning and replication, time synchronization and other issues covered completely and understandibly. A must have for any Netware administrator


African-American Inventors III: Patricia Bath, Philip Emeagwali, Henry Sampson, Valerie Thomas, Peter Tolliver (Capstone Short Biographies)
Published in School & Library Binding by Capstone Press (1998)
Author: Susan K. Henderson
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Wonderful piece on Black American Inventors!
The author describes the life and work of two female and three male African American Inventors and Scientists, including the contributions of agriculturalist George Washington Carver and Nigerian-born computer scientist Philip Emeagwali.

The search engines contain a thousand supplementary references to Carver or Emeagwali.

The stories are filled with the themes of perseverance and overcoming obstacles.

The inventions described include massively parallel supercomputers, petroleum reservoir simulation and oil recovery, uses of peanut, lasers for eye surgery, and a new way to make rocket fuel.

Excerpts read: "Emeagwali programmed the Connection Machine to make 3.1 billion calculations per second.... This speed was a new world record in 1989.... The record breaking speed of Emeagwali's invention helped people understand the value of parallel computing."

The photographs of the inventors and the illustrations of their inventions make this a useful book for K-12 school assignments on inventors.

This book is a must for math, science and black history related school assignments.


The Biochemistry of Silage
Published in Hardcover by Scholium Intl (1991)
Authors: A.R. Henderson, S.J.E. Heron, and Peter McDonald
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Biochemistry of silage
The best text in the field.

Throughly covers crop characteristics, plant enzymes, respiration, microbial populations, in silo effects of O2, water, common silage additives, and aerobic deterioration. Copiously referenced throughout, allowing for identification of the source paper.

It is from an European perspective, that of wet grass silages, but the principals are universial.

Recommended for researchers or grad students.


Gardening for Profit
Published in Hardcover by Amereon Ltd (1976)
Author: Peter Henderson
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Essential to make money market gardening.
"Henderson was the market gardening authority of his time, and he sure knew his stuff. Even after well over 100 years his advice still rings true in most particulars," says Eliot Coleman in The New Organic Grower

"A must for the commercial market gardener. will compliment any vegetable grower's up-to-date library and help keep them gardening for profit." -- New England Farmer.


Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: Collected Papers from the Epsrc Research Programme
Published in Hardcover by Springer Verlag (2000)
Author: Peter Henderson
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Addresses a narrow topic. Worthwhile to right audience
This is a collection of 20 papers that were developed under the auspices of the U.K.'s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Each paper is a report that is associated with a specific project, and each project shares two attributes: (1) legacy system focus, and (2) business process evolution, change or adaptation within the legacy environment.

If you are dealing (struggling) with adapting legacy systems to realities of changing business processes in your organization one or more of the papers are bound to be applicable. The topics of the twenty papers are:

(1) Business Processes, Legacy Systems and a Flexible Future, (2) Modelling the Co-Evolution of Business Processes and IT Systems, Complexity: Partial Support for BPR?, (3) FLEXX: Designing Software for Change through Evolvable Architectures, (4) RIPPLE: Retaining Integrity in Process Products over their Long-Term Evolution, (5) Understanding Change: Using the Patterns Paradigm in the Context of Business Domain Knowledge, (6) Combining Organizational and Technical Change in Finding Solutions to Legacy Systems, (7) Connecting Business Modelling to Requirements Engineering, (8) Interpretivist Modelling for Information System Definition, (9) Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Impacts and Future Directions, (10) The Implications of Information Technology Infrastructure Capabilities for Business Process Change Success, (11) IT Support for the Very High Value Added Bid Pricing Process, Social Viewpoints on Legacy Systems, (12) Co-Evolution and an Enabling Infrastructure: A Solution to Legacy?, (13) Modelling Legacy Telecommunications: Switching Systems for Interaction Analysis, (14) Reverse Requirements Engineering: The AMBOLS Approach, Reconstruction of Legacy Systems for Evolutionary Change, (15) Handling Legacy IT in Banking by using Object Design Patterns to Separate Business and IT Issues, (16) Legacy System Anti-Patterns and a Pattern-Oriented Migration Response, (17) Assisting Requirements Recovery from Legacy Documents, (18) The Systematic Construction of Information Systems, (19) Its Not Just About Old Software: A Wider View of Legacy Systems, (20) Delivering Business Performance: Opportunities and Challenges for IT.

There is a wealth of knowledge, lessons learned and strategies buried between the covers of this book. Some of the papers are dryly written, but all contain thought-provoking ideas and, in some cases, solutions. This book is suited more for academics, upper technical management and consultants, and to that audience will prove to be a valuable resource.


Out of Control: Confessions of an NFL Casualty
Published in Hardcover by Putnam Pub Group (1987)
Authors: Thomas Henderson and Peter Knobler
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Ball Four on steroids
Henderson's Out of Control is one of most revealing and honest books I've yet to read that documents the world of big-time NFL football, or any sport for that matter. It packs a heck of a punch by basically chronicling, in great detail, the partying and good times that were had by the 1970's Dallas Cowboys. The drugs, booze, women and carousing are all here in abundance. Of course, Henderson's athletic life is the focal point, however I found the "behind the scenes" stuff enthralling and worth the price of the book alone. Much in the tradition of Bouton's Ball Four, Out of Control takes it to another level.
The usefulness of Out of Control is its brutal honesty and fly on the wall glimpse into big time sports. Anyone who's played any level of competitive football will find Out of Control to be a magnificent read you won't be able to put down. I devoured the whole thing in two days. Henderson's assertion of covert racism regarding just who would start at linebacker was also interesting and made for great reading.
The NFL's Public Relations department won't be sponsoring Henderson's book signing tour anytime soon.

The Dark Side of Sports Fame
As sports biographies go, this is a very good one. I have some memories of Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson's football days but obviously never knew what was going on behind the scenes. The pattern for his abuses were set young in his life and not necessarily as a result of his fame in the NFL. Hats off to Henderson for not pulling any punches or blaming anyone for his drug problems but himself. He admitted his faults and didn't come off too preachy about his downfalls either. A most enjoyable read if you find a copy of it.

A story as brutal & hard-hitting as 'Hollywood' himself!
I've always enjoyed reading autobiographies where the author's not afraid to let you in on the more lurid details and the darker side of his/her life. And being a follower of pro football, Thomas 'Hollywood' Henderson's amazing memoirs of growing up in the Austin ghetto, his pro football playing days as a linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys' Doomsday II defense, and his near-self-destruction from his addictions to cocaine, painkillers, and alcohol makes 'Out of Control' a double treat for me!

With the help of sports author Peter Knobler, 'Hollywood' discusses his darker days and eventual reclamation in the plain and straightforward manner that made his reputation as one of the NFL's most colorful characters, and makes for an absorbing read. I went from cover to cover in one sitting with this one!

There are a few other interesting and outrageous moments in Henderson's life aside from his drug-and-sex binges as well. The best of these were his front-row view of the climactic Roger Staubach / Clint Longley sucker-punch in the Cowboys locker room, and checking out Richard Pryor's home porno flicks at Pryor's house during one of his infamous parties.

Whether you're a football/sports fan or just an avid reader of 'True confessions'-style biographies/memoirs, then this is one book you shouldn't miss!

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Contemporary Climatology
Published in Paperback by Longman (1986)
Authors: Ann Henderson-Sellers and Peter John Robinson
Amazon base price: $49.95
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excellent
It will be good studing from this boo


The Longman Anthology of British Literature (The Victorian Age)
Published in Textbook Binding by Addison-Wesley Pub Co (05 August, 1999)
Authors: David Damrosch, Peter Manning, Heather Henderson, Anne Schotter, William Sharpe, and Stuart Sherman
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Like its companion volume, 1B, loaded with sloppy errors
"Pagen" [sic] is misspelled in the Beowulf introduction. Henry II is described in the introduction as having ruled from 1154 to 1177, when in actuality, he ruled until his death in 1189. The more I read, the less I trust what I'm reading. I recommend M. H. Abrams' Norton anthology instead.

dont get me started
otherwise its a great collection of texts. 3 books too.

Excellent anthology with many uses
This is an excellent anthology, with generous selections, lively introductions, and beautifully reproduced color plates. Though published on "bible paper," there is very little bleed-through. It is an splendid alternative to the Norton Anthology, not only for its ample contexts sections and for its loving attention to both canonical and new writers (especially women writers of the Renaissance), but also for its favoring of complete works--More's Utopia, Sidney's Apology, etc. I've been using IB this semester, and though there are, as the (I think excessively) negative reviewer notes below, occasional errors, these are not unusual in massive endeavors. An old game in the 1950s used to be to send grad students in search of errors and typos in the standard literary critical books of the day. I'm sure these will be cleaned up. For now the book works especially well for "survey" courses and for upper-level, specialized courses, when supplemented by another paperback or two, or course packets.


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