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Declared Dead
Published in Paperback by Harper Mass Market Paperbacks (1996)
Authors: John Francome and MacGregor
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This book is a racy pacy book with alot of potential
This book is just one of many good books written by John Francome, Decleared Dead kept you on your toes throughout the whole book, with excitment around every corner. John Francome writes about his passion in horses, and we are lucky enough to have a man with such talent sharing it with us. I would reccomend this book to any horse lover or anyone looking for a good fiction/crime.


Discovery of the Art of the Insane
Published in Hardcover by Princeton Univ Pr (1989)
Author: John M. MacGregor
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Reality is thin, thank god I'm on this side
This art is the key to understanding the isnsane, most people will be afraid of this art, it is disturbing. I highly recommend this book, as it is an monument to cruelty, as side we never see.


Metamorphosis : The Fiber Art of Judith Scott
Published in Hardcover by Creative Growth Art Center (01 September, 1999)
Authors: John M. Macgregor, Leon Borensztein, and Irene W. Brydon
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Outsider Artist, Judith Scott
What an incredible personal story! This book is a must for anyone interested in Outsider Art. Judith Scott's history and artistic development are both moving and challenging; her work is fascinating, gorgeous, and incredibly complex, the photographs are fantastic; and the production values exquisite. It's one of those books you would love to give as a gift, but would rather keep for yourself.


Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy"
Published in Paperback by Sheridan House (1987)
Author: John MacGregor
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Adventures of the man who invented the modern canoe
This is a highly readable account of the author's solo voyage across the English Channel to France and up the Seine. Although he sails in a small sailboat here, MacGregor invented the modern canoe, and spent his life promoting the canoe and other outdoor sports. This is a fun book, especially for small boat sailors


Attacking Zone Defenses (MacGregor Sports Education)
Published in Paperback by MacGregor Sports Education (1989)
Author: John Kresse
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The game has changed. Learn the new zone attack.
Beat the zone by creating triangles and passing was how it was taught in my day. Today you'll see the same fundamentals enhanced with picks, back picks, and gap dribbling... heresy 25 years ago. This book teaches the new concepts that are essential to coaching today. I read it cover to cover and now use it as an important reference.

if you are an X's and O's technician - great book!
The book has many many zone offenses. Some against specific zones and some good for any zone. They are mostly continuities. Very detailed descriptions for each offense, very thorough and effective. I adopted one zone offense for my 8th grade team and achieved immediate results.


Exploring Technology and Social Space
Published in Paperback by Sage Publications (1997)
Author: John Macgregor Wise
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An important synthesis of ideas on technology and agency.
This book deftly examines several strands of dense cultural, philosophical, social, and technology studies theory--articulating useful connections and providing concise synopses of bodies of work that would take months to read. For that reason alone this book will be cited often in years to come. But the book does so much more that is interesting. Building on Kant and Hegel, Wise develops a definition of modernist epistemology and shows how our understanding of and relationships with technology are freighted with this epistemology. Drawing on Donna Harraway's cyborg writings, he pushes towards an amodern epistemology which attributes agency to both humans and other cultural/technological actors, blurring the lines, as Harraway would have it, between organism and technology. His work also strongly depends on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to articulate a two-pronged agency: corpreal agency which is manifested in technology, and incorporeal agency which is manifested in language. This amodern description of agency both in terms of technology and language is an important move that should be of great interest to scholars of the rhetoric of science, cultural studies, and philosophy of science. He recasts a dozen or so theories in ways that will have the reader scribbling ideas in the margins.


A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe
Published in Paperback by Dixon-Price Publishing (2000)
Authors: J. MacGregor and Brian R. Kologe
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Great Book
This is a delightful book by a Victorian gentleman who obviously had some dash and a sense of the theatrical, but also a wonderful dry humor and spirit of daring. It is a wonderful book to read as you get ready for an extended canoe or kayaking trip, or just to read by the fire on a cold winter evening. It is interesting to see that MacGregor faced many of the same challenges of traveling by kayak through Europe that you still find today.


Java Network Security (The Itso Networking Series)
Published in Paperback by Prentice Hall PTR (1998)
Authors: Robert Macgregor, Dave Durbin, John Owlett, Andrew Yeomans, and Staff Ibm Books
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Pure theoretical and impractical
This is kind of books PhD academy probably likes the most - lot's of talk, nothing practical.
What authors do is talk endlessly about different security aspects (both general and Java-related)
showing no working code at all (oh, sorry, they do - let me find those 2 pages ..)
I see this book as a bunch of security definitions ( "what is class loader, what is class file
verifier, what is SSL and what is firewall" ) and that's not too much, folks.

Authors even spend time describing some sophisticated security and cryptography packages
developed by IBM (they're naturally IBM-biased in the examples), but whoops - they're
not available for download, IBM internal usage only ! Who cares ..

To summarize, that's an outdated "security for dummies" book, 90% of which are pure theoretical
discussions and it only fits those who see much bigger challenge in writing technical
papers than in developing working code.

P.S.
"Java Security : Hostile Applets, Holes & Antidotes" was written in 1996 and
it's even more dated than this book but I guess I learned more from it.

Disordered collection of tips
The idea if making this book is good. The result is a disordered collection of tips. The structure is disordered and disappointing. I suggest the authors would follow a different structure like that of a "security services one". This book like it is is very disappointing. You have the impression that there is no start and no end to the arguments either.


Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal
Published in Hardcover by Delano Greenidge Editions (2002)
Author: John M. MacGregor
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The Birds and the Frogs
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Authors: Aristophanes and John Marshall MacGregor
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