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Night Visions 5
Published in Hardcover by Dark Harvest Books (1988)
Authors: Stephen King, Dan Simmons, Martin. Goerge R.R., George R. R. Martin, and Martin. George R.R.
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GOOD SHORT STORIES

3 stories by Stephen King: "The Reploids", "Sneakers" and "Dedication".

3 stories by Dan Simmons: "Metastasis", "Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and Living in Hell" and "Iverson's Pits".

1 story by George R. R. Martin: "The Skin Trade".

While the stories by King and Simmons are more or less short, the story by Martin is long, taking up almost half of the volume.

The only (almost) original story is "Metastasis" by Simmons, where a medical experiment lets a man see strange violet creatures (usually invisible) feeding on human beings like vampire slugs, causing cancer.

"Sneakers" is a ghost story, while "Dedication" is about urban witchcraft and "The Skin Trade" is a story about werewolves and investigation.

The Skin Trade (Night Visions, 5)
Published in Paperback by Berkley Pub Group (1990)
Authors: Stephen King, Dan Simmons, George R.R. Martin, and Douglas E. Winter
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GOOD SHORT STORIES

3 stories by Stephen King: "The Reploids", "Sneakers" and "Dedication".

3 stories by Dan Simmons: "Metastasis", "Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and Living in Hell" and "Iverson's Pits".

1 story by George R. R. Martin: "The Skin Trade".

While the stories by King and Simmons are more or less short, the story by Martin is long, taking up almost half of the volume.

The only (almost) original story is "Metastasis" by Simmons, where a medical experiment lets a man see strange violet creatures (usually invisible) feeding on human beings like vampire slugs, causing cancer.

"Sneakers" is a ghost story, while "Dedication" is about urban witchcraft and "The Skin Trade" is a story about werewolves and investigation.

Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Sculpture
Published in Hardcover by Madison Art Center (1998)
Authors: Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Stephen Fleischman, Martin L. Friedman, and Madison Art Center
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Where is the Accademics?
I just hate to slam a book about my favorite sculptor, so I couldn't give less than three stars. Even the pictures aren't that good, many are black and white. The real irritation factor here is the author's obcession with the artist's biography. Is it so outlandish to think someone might "get" this work simply because it so strongly appeals to the human element in us all? What would all the art reviewers do if they had no access to the details of an artist's life? ...If the art journals refused to publish the "Enquirer" method of analysis and required something that was... less sensational ...more objective ...more ACCADEMIC, maybe? I'm sure Mr. Friedman meant no disrespect for Ms. von Rydingsvard, but did he mean to review the art or the artist? It is extremly patronizing that primarily female artists are subjected to this type of analysis. Let's get it together, boys!

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Heidegger and Being and Time (Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks)
Published in Paperback by Routledge (1996)
Authors: Steven Mulhall and Stephen Mulhall
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Don't even dare!
Terrible. Mulhall manages to spend 200 pages on Being and Time without saying much of anything. Does he dare to strike out on his own interpretations? No. Does he adhere to a close word by word analysis? No.

Why then should we read this book? (We shouldn't.)

Once again, this book is a perfect example that the British have no business reading the Germans, and vice versa.

One would be best advised to check out Michael Gelven's "A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time."

No Real Help
I bought the book in order to make sense of Heidegger's excrutiatingly difficult, BEING AND TIME. After having read the first 40 pages twice, the book wasn't making matters any clearer. I don't know why UCLA's Simon Evnine said "It will prove most helpful to students struggling to understand Heidegger's difficult work". The problem I think is that he using H's terms without comprehensively defining H's unique vocabulary (in a way that those who aren't professional philosophers can understand). And furthermore, he doesn't inform the student of the relevent background philosophical ideas that, I think, are necessary to understand H's text. I checked out Gelvan's A COMMENTARY ON H'S BEING AND TIME (quite coincidentally, without having read the previous review!), and found it much, much more illuminating. I have a paper due in a week on H's B & T, and I'm sticking with Gelvan!

A helpful overview of "Being and Time"
I found Mulhall's work to be a helpful illustration of the main efforts of Heidegger's "Being and Time". I wouldn't, however, suggest this work to someone who is completely unfamiliar with Heidegger. Although I believe Mulhall has done a fine job of slowly articulating the path of Heidegger's great book, it is not an easy read. If you are looking for cliffnotes....look elsewhere. This book is for those looking to better understand Heidegger's thought; it is not for those looking to write a quick paper. If you are genuinely interested in getting a firm handle on the main points of Being and Time, I would suggest this book. Routledge has produced some great guidebooks...and this is one of them.

Using Isapi
Published in Paperback by Que (1997)
Authors: Stephen Genusa, Bobby, Jr Addison, Allen Clark, Dean Cleaver, Kevin Flick, Thomas Leroux, Martin J. Norman, Tom Parkinson, Paul P., Jr Parrone, and Michael Regelski
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Overpriced Shovelware
Read the Microsoft documentation instead. This book is a thinly disguised rip-off of the Microsoft documentation padded with examples of dubious value. In 590 pages this book manages to add no value or information beyond the original documentation. That's quite an achievement.

If you like pain, ISAPI is for you
If you want to learn ISAPI...think again. This was "hot" 2 years ago...now it is all but dead.

ISAPI's big promise was better performance and memory usage...ironic that it has now fallen in favor to the biggest performance pig of all web applications...ASP. In an age of fast machines and small web apps, rapid development and ease of use wins out over performance.

ISAPI is hard to learn, harder to get right, unstable, bug ridden (if written in MFC) and surprisingly inflexible.

Look, you're a smart person. You want to do the right thing. You don't need to subject yourself to the torture of learning ISAPI. Only hard-core programmers who are tasked with writing a custom web app that is going to get some VERY heavy traffic should even bother with ISAPI.

So why did I give this book 4 stars? There are no good ISAPI books out there. This one has the most information in it and will allow you the best chance to actually develop something that works. Get this book and hit Genusa's (now dusty) ISAPI site. Also spend a lot of time in the Microsoft knowledge base...there are plenty of workarounds and bugs to learn about too.

Keep in mind that with ISAPI you had better be a damn good programmer. If your DLL ever crashes...bye bye web server. This is harder than you think if you are doing "serious" web programming which includes database access.

Smart managers will not allow mission-critical web apps to be developed in ISAPI by a web punk who has never done this before. Do everyone a favor and get a clue. There is a reason why nobody is doing this stuff anymore!

Game over. Go home and don't look back. Go off and learn ASP and Cold Fusion like a good little web programmer. You will have a marketable skill and will actually get things done.

Best of the available ISAPI books, has reasonable examples
ISAPI is Microsoft's approach to adding capabilities to web serving. There are only a few books that describe how to use ISAPI. This book is the best of them, because the author: 1) provides examples in both C and C++, and 2) compares ISAPI with CGI solutions. Unfortunately, ISAPI is a complicated subject, so more and shorter examples would help elucidate the reader.

The Bronx Lost, Found, and Remembered 1935-1975
Published in Hardcover by Back in The Bronx (01 January, 1999)
Authors: Stephen M. Samtur and Martin A. Jackson
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Let's Go Washington, D.C.: Map Guide (1996)
Published in Paperback by St. Martin's Press (1996)
Authors: Stephen P. Janiak, Abigail Rezneck, Julie Zikherman, St Martins Press, Lets Go, and Inc Editorial Staff Let's Go
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Nonlinear Modeling and Forecasting ; Proceedings of the Workshop on Nonlinear Modeling and Forecasting Held September, 1990 in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Published in Hardcover by Westview Press (1992)
Authors: Martin Casdagli and Stephen Eubank
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Out of Body, into Mind: A Metaphysical Adventure
Published in Paperback by The Oaklea Press (1996)
Author: Stephen Hawley Martin
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Soul Survivor
Published in Hardcover by The Oaklea Press (1996)
Author: Stephen Hawley Martin
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