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Cisco IP Telephony
Published in Hardcover by Cisco Press (17 December, 2001)
Authors: David Lovell and Scott Veibell
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Not sufficient for IP telephony certification
This book does not cover all the topics probed in the exam.Needs to be updated and aligned with the latest Cisco IP Telephony Certification Exam.

Very Useful Overview of CallManager
I didn't buy this book to pass the CIPT exam. I bought it to fill in some gaps in my CallManager knowledge in preparation for the CCIE Voice. I found it to be a useful introduction to CallManager. It takes the reader through the basic configuration of CallManager using well thought out (albeit fairly simple) examples. It is very similar to the materials found on the CIPT course.

If you are going to have to administer/configure a CallManager for the first time - this book is a good place to start.

If you are going to sit the CCIE voice it is probably too lightweight for your needs (although it is on the prescribed reading list!)

9E0-402
While I passed the 9E0-402 exam, after 3 weeks of reading this book. I am giving it 4 stars, because I found out in the exam, the book missed out on some details. However with work experience, you should be able to pass the exam with this book. I am not working with IP Telephony at the moment, so I will say I got a good bargain for my money. I aslo used Boson test, but the questions were too easy compared to the real thing, personally not worth buying. To pass the exam read this book twice, and you should be ready. I am willing to answer any questions regarding the exam prep.

Special Edition Using CGI
Published in Paperback by Que (1900)
Authors: Jeffry Dwight, Michael Erwin, Tobin Anthony, Danny Brands, Ron Clark, Mike Ellsworth, David Geller, Galen A. Grimes, Matthew D. Healy, and Greg Knauss
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Real Programmers Don't Want this Book
I really enjoy the Using Series, and look for them whenever I want to learn more about a certain topic. However, this book is deplorable. It is not made for anyone looking to write their own code, or anyone who actually wants to program. All this book tries to do is show you how to use someone else's code. I do not mean another module, such as the infamous CGI.pm moudle, but rather using another script and "tweaking" it for your needs. It also does not seek to explain the theory behind the code. I was also quite disappointed in how it was organized. The Using Seies are good books, but this one doesn't belong in the family. There are much better books out there that will serve your needs.

Pooly written with incomplete examples
I found this book to be hard to read and poorly written. The examples are very difficult to follow because most are only code segments not the full code. This makes it very diffcult to follow. As any experienced programmer will tell you "Nothing helps more than a good example.". This book is highly lacking of good examples. I have several years of experience with programming in several languages, which allowed me to fill the gaps in the examples, how ever a beginning programmer would be lost. In conclusion I do not recommend this book to a programmer of any level.

Speacial Edition Using CGI
I found this book to be hard to read and poorly written. The examples are very difficult to follow because most are only code segments not the full code. This makes it very diffcult to follow. As any experienced programmer will tell you "Nothing helps more than a good example.". This book is highly lacking of good examples. I have several years of experience with programming in several languages, which allowed me to fill the gaps in the examples, how ever a beginning programmer would be lost. In conclusion I do not recommend this book to a programmer of any level.

Java Server Pages Application Development
Published in Paperback by Sams (17 November, 2000)
Authors: Scott M. Stirling, Andre Lei, Ben Forta, Edwin Smith, Larry Kim, Roger Kerr, and David Aden
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Not bad...
The book is not bad and somewhat practical. If it was sold for half of its present retail price, I'd give it 4 stars.

Misses The Mark
I am the senior web developer at a small company looking for a good book to bring my less-experienced people up to speed on JSP. I bought this book because the introduction says, "This book is designed to teach you JSP, even if you have no Java experience whatsoever." Sadly that is not true.
Just three pages into Chapter 2, 'Creating a JSP Page', the author hits you with several pages of Java source code as he compares and contrasts the java source produced by JRun, Tomcat, etc as a result of processing a simple JSP page.
The first piece of JSP you see is the page directive, and this topic begins with references to java packages. First, I would think that there are kindler, gentler ways to dip ones toe into the JSP waters. Surely some simple JSPs could be written that do not require the <%@page import...> directive, saving this subject for later. And even so, the explanation of packages would make no sense to someone who did not already understand java.
And so it goes throughout this book.

Beware of the errors in the examples!
I have some programming experience but am new to Java/JSP. I choose this book to start out with and am about half way through working all the examples by hand using Forte for Java CE and then "deploying" them to a seperate test server running Tomcat 4.0. Basically, there are several errors in the example code in the book. Some of these are fixed on the versions on the cd - some not. I've wasted many hours scouring the net and pulling my hair out to get the examples to compile and work in both Forte for Java CE and Tomcat 4.0 - EXTREMELY frustrating for newbies like me. Too bad, since otherwise the book is pretty well written. Don't assume the example code is correct and you'll be okay.

The Ultimate Elvis Quiz Book: More Than 1,000 Questions, Puzzles, and Word Games About the King of Rock 'N' Roll
Published in Hardcover by Random House Value Pub (1900)
Authors: W. Kent Moore and David Logan Scott
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one word: L A M E
i should have read all the reviews not just the first one. i didnt like this book at all.

I have to agree with the other customer. This book is bad.
I am an Elvis fan and got this book as a gift for my birthday. I'm sure a lot of work went into it, but it's not actually an Elvis quiz book. At least I didn't have to pay for it, so I suppose it could have been worse.

Great way to learn about Elvis
Moore & Scott have a real winner with the Ultimate Elvis Quiz Book. It is a very unique way to learn about Elvis. More importantly, it is just a lot of fun doing the clever puzzles. A bonus is the great pictures, most of which are rarely seen. There are books available about all aspects of Elvis' life, but this one is totally different from all the others. All Elvis fans should have this book.

Linux Programming White Papers: A Compilation of Technical Documents for Programmers
Published in Paperback by The Coriolis Group (25 October, 1999)
Authors: David Rusling, Ori Pomerantz, Sven Goldt, Sven Van Der Meer, Scott Burkett, Matt Welsh, Ivan Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, Meyer C. Tanuan, and David A. Rusling
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Portable Linux Documentation Project for bathroom reading.
This book is pretty much a snapshot of the Linux Documentation Project's documentation. There are some very good chapters in this book, but unfortunately some of them are woefully incomplete, and should not have been included. Understand that all the material in this book is freely available on the net. If you value your printer, and don't mind shelling out some money for a bound tree-ware version, this is a very good book.

1000 and 1st superficial linux "kernel" book
Not that it's wholly bad, but I'm still waiting for a real decent, honestly done linux book--something that would at least justify its title. Of course, this book's title doesn't mean much, so I shouldn't complain . Anyway, it's not that much about programming anything, but more about how linux is designed--with diagrams but with little code. (I guess it's no good for us readers to live through another half-a-year without having purchased yet another book with a depiction of i86 paging architecture ;-)

Writing ain't perfect either (I'm being charitable and ascribe the funny stuff to the writing failures, not incompetence.) A IRQ..." and more ponderous blah blah. Well, unfortunately, that's not *assigned* IRQs (on linux and anywhere else where interrupts are used.) This is not nitpicking on my part, this is an example of authors' mental mish-mash that I, as a student, remember suffering from in the past. The problem is that interrupts and IRQs are NOT the same or equivalent things. For someone who doesn't know that yet, this text will impede comprehension of the issues. This kind of thing. Well... whatever, I guess. Hopefully the reader isn't a complete newbie and won't be thrown off by a nice little bit of semantic backstabbing.

I must say, I hate the whole series, this book, and all the "Commentary..." books, where you got 400 pages worth of damn source printout (I'm not kidding, pure source code) with perhaps another 100 pages of questionable 'commentary'. It's clear to me that Coriolis, after having successfully got rid of writers like Abrash, decided to jump on the quick rip-off bandwagon, in that particular case, linux-related. Linux--that's where the money is today!

So, here's my the ones I mentioned from this black-cover series) as it perhaps does contain something of value--but there's not nearly enough there to justify an above $10-a pop price or 600-page volumes. The publishers have clearly mastered the art of fattening books up with blatant nonsense, like api references and, now, even multi-hundred-page source printouts.

Considering how much linux info is available completely free, I can't see any reason to spend money on this book.

The Oxford Companion to American Law
Published in Hardcover by Oxford University Press (2002)
Authors: Kermit Hall and David Scott Clark
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Useful but has some biased entries.....
This tome (*large* volume) contains much interesting and useful material but, unfortunately, a very few of its authors have an ideological axe to grind. A publication of this sort should be aimed at objectivity, and not be a forum for certain "contributors" to propagate their personal sociological/political agendas.

Otherwise, I find this to be a generally worthwhile publication, but do be on your guard. =)

American Law
I came by this book while actually looking for something else, and found it to be very informative and useful. Similar to other Oxford companions it is cross-referenced and attempts to be usable to both the legal community as well as ordinary people.

The bookk is centered upon themes in law (common law, constitutional law, environmental law, etc. rather than specific cases, which makes it a bit cumbersome until the reader learns what the book is really meant to provide. If one is looking for specific Supreme Court cases then the companion to the Supreme Court should be consulted. But the point is that other books are out there for specific case histories. This book attempts to pull legal issues together into a single point of reference. True legal scholars will likely feel this book is too brief on specifics, but the lay reader will find it useful in putting perspective on common legal questions of the present.

Singers of Strange Songs: A Celebration of Brian Lumley
Published in Paperback by Chaosium (1997)
Author: Scott David Aniolowski
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i can sing along
not bad. a pretty obvious one, but well written, by Burleson. Nicoll has a well written one, but very short. D'amassa has an interesting one. Lumley's spaghetti is the longest. an interesting pulpish haunted house- story. worth a read, but is perhaps lacking real greatness

Great To Read...For A While.
"~Singers Of Strange Songs is a book of short stories H. P. Lovecraft style. The difference is the authors have incorporated Brian Lumley's additions to the Mythos."~ to Force the Rhymes, by Benjamin Adams"~ Cement Surroundings and Spaghetti are well worth getting this collection. They scared the bejezus out of me. I'll never look at spaghetti the same again!

Way of Zen
Published in Hardcover by Thomas Dunne Books (2002)
Authors: Tenshin Fletcher, David Scott, and Fletcher Scott
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Nothing new here!
Having the pleasure both of knowing and having practised with one of the authors of this book, I expected a lot more. What I found was mediocre, lacking any particular life or relevance. To make matters worse, it's all been done before and done better too. The illustrations are poor quality black and white and seem to be the same set that are recycled through every sub standard coffee table book on Zen.

The authors had a real chance here to write something relevant and interesting, instead this book gives the impression of being written to a formula, in a hurry and for the specific purpose of making a fast buck, rather than drawing us deeper into the world of Zen Buddhist practice. If this book was a creative writing effort one would have to say, "Could do a lot better". I'd suggest that the reader try a book like 'Zen Meditation in Plain English' By Peter Matthiessen and John Daishin Buksbazen instead. It does what it says on the tin and does it with elegance and simplicity.

a good place to start
Way of Zen provides a glimpse into the place Zen holds in history and culture, thereby giving the beginner a good point of reference with regard to one of the most dynamic religious traditions existing today. Concise, definitve, and free of rhetoric and jargon. A good read for those previewing the morass of religious practices in contemporary America in hopes of finding what may fit them.

Cardography
Published in Hardcover by Hypatia Pr Ltd (1987)
Authors: Orson Scott Card and David G. Hartwell
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Pretty good, not great.
This book was okay, I especially like the parts concerning Ender's Game and Orson Scott Card. Keep it up!

Guidelines for Chiropractic Quality Assurance and Practice Parameters: Proceedings of the Mercy Center Consensus Conference
Published in Paperback by Jones & Bartlett Pub (1993)
Authors: Mercy Center Consensus Conference, David Chapman-Smith, Donald M. Petersen, and Scott Haldeman
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OUTDATED AND CONSENSUS ONLY
This is merely a consensus of a limited number of people, many of whom do not practice and others with apparent private agendas. One of the supposed contributors was deceased long before it was even published. Makes me wonder how they even published it.... Pretty much a waste of time and paper.

This text misrepresents its worth, full of legal holes.
This small group of 'experts' on chiropractic completely misrepresented the facts involved. They set out with an obvious purpose and this book is their attempt at a professiopnal takeover. A new guidelines book has recently been published and has been approved by the National Guideline Clearinghouse (a branch of US gov't). If this subject interests you, get the other one and save yourself some money.

Standard of the Profession
The Mercy Center Guidelines reflect the highest standard of care in the chiropractic profession.

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