Extension Books

This book is the most clear and insightful analysis of the global interactions between large industrial civilizations and small indigenous communities I've yet seen. There is no fuzzy logic or impotent liberal hand-wringing here, just solid information and analysis by a competent scholar in the field of Anthropology. Excellent overview of our global situation, very clear analysis of the processes of history, and fine perspective on contemporary issues.

I would consider this book a must read for any serious student of indigenous peoples, the history of frontier encounters or modern geopolitics as it relates to indigenous peoples. As a person who picked up degrees in History and International Studies before venturing into the field of Anthropology and encountering this book, I would say that Bodley cuts through the ideological orientation an imprecise analysis one tends to see in the writings of historians and political scientists on this subject, and gives the reader a solid understanding of one of the largest and most sweeping trends in history.

I had to buy and read this book for a class in school, and I can say, it is probably the most boring book that I have ever read. I cannot stand to read it, the information is good, but its just written in such a bland and biased way, the author sounds like a total hippie who thinks we should all still be living in tribes in the forest.

i think - it is impossible to write a book with such a great subject more boring and annoying than Bodley did.....the telephone book seems more appealing to me.........

This book is amazing in what it achieves - a thorough, comprehensive view of expansive, global civilization and its affects on local, indigenous, autonomous peoples around the world. Bodley clearly and succinctly summaries the last two and a half centuries of colonial and imperial expansion, the people who resisted and continue to resist that expansion, and the negative consequences of being incorporated (usually by force) into large, impersonal, irresponsible nation-states. A must read for anyone who wishes to step outside our consumer-frenzied, totalitarian culture of domination and see what other worlds were and are possible.

The book has good introduction material the examples described in the book are bit old and some of the classes are deprecated. The book also needs an update to include newer features of JCE and JSSE. I hurried up to buy this book and then realized it is bit outdated. Now I have Core security patterns by chris steel which covers well on cryptography api and examples using j2se 5.0 and j2ee 1.4 as well.

This book delivers on what it promises. A practical guide to implementations using the JCA and JCE. If you're a Java developer starting on projects that deal with certificates, keystores, encryption, digital signatures, tokens, digests, or hardware cryptographic devices (HSMs), then you need to read this book before you begin.

Jason covers the topics he sets out to cover. If your eyes glazed over at the JCA documentation describing EngineSPIs or at mathematical treatises on crypto algorithms, then this book is for you. He gets right to the meat of the matter, and the code is simple enough to follow without having an IDE running. There are only a few typographical flaws, and nothing that distracted from the concepts being explained.

The book walks you through the overall provider architecture, gives examples of provider selection and some key workaround information for some historical problems as the JCA and JCE were being developed, extended, and improved by Sun.

Straight-up crypto is covered with symmetric and asymmetric keys, the coverage of block and stream ciphers, and the importance of specifying chaining (EBC/CBC/etc.) and padding (PKCS1/PKCS5/etc.). Digests, HMACs, Password-based encryption (PBE) and digital certificates are covered, along with key exchange (DH), and key management in keystores. The extra depth the author gives on key management was quite welcome, and often ignored. Examples using the Java keytool utility will also be appreciated by the target audience.

In short, this book is going to be on my required reading list for the Java application developer generalist starting on projects that involve crypto or, in particular, certificates. In my case, I use hardware-based keystores, and this book makes it very easy for me to build a common understanding in explaining what we want our team to accomplish.

This book should take about a week to digest.

What you won't find in this book are recipes or procedures. It's a practical guide, and lives up to the title. This book won't be a help to people writing JCPs either -- it's clearly targeted at the application developer needing to do things like load a certificate, implement a 3DES encryption/decryption, generate keys, or make sure you're using the required JCP implementation for your project. It also won't explain the nuances of ECB and CBC, or Blowfish and AES. But it will give you a practical guide on their fundamental differences as to the impact they have on your development. All example code is in Java. It doesn't cover elliptical algorithms, but, after reading this book, you shouldn't have a problem with writing code that relies on a specific provider's features.

As for the price, quite reasonable, and very useful to pass along or lend to the newcomers to your team.

What's wrong with this book? There is no thorough explanation of the concepts of cryptography, he just starts off taking shotcuts and with code examples that are absolutely not mature.
I have a theoretical background in cryptography, but often had to read the text many times over before I could understand what the author was trying to say.

This is the starting point for a practical guide on java cryptography, an introduction, but by no means enough.
I would have considered giving it 3 stars, weren't it not that het appendix A on Base64coding, another topic that the author doesn't treat, is completely missing !

I have to disagree with the previous reviewer. This is an excellent book that shows one side of the AIDS epidemic that isn't discussed as much. The epidemic of AIDS in the poor. Dr. Zuger has taken some of the patients she has cared for and written their stories from a medical and personal perspective. I don't think this book was intended to delve too deeply into the medical jargon, but is more to talk about her experiences with her patients on a more personal level.
An excellent read. A+

I think that if you are thinking of buying this book think again. I was expecting narratives that would capture me. I was expecting to get to know each character...but that was not to be the case. It was a very matter of fact overview of each person's case. It did not do a good job into gving insight in each character neither did it do a good job in giving me any useful information on the medical side of HIV, therefore it was useful for absolutely... nothing.
I feel as though I cannot even articulate how disappointed I was by this book. I didn't even bother reading the last ten pages because it was not worth it. All the characters were similar, and all the stories were bland. thats all I can say...Dont waste your time or money!!!

I checked this book out of my university library because I wanted a complete history of Lebanon that covered the entire civil war and the following period, and this was the only one it had. Harris brings an obvious knowledge of the country, and peppers his account of the civil war with personal anecdotes from his time at the American University of Beirut during the war, which greatly add to the book. Unfortunately, Harris didn't do nearly as good a job as he could have-for one thing, his prose style is not particularly engaging (I had to work to finish this book). Also, he assumes his readers already have a basic knowledge of Lebanon and the civil war (or have access to other books besides his about them). Probably as a result, this book has lots of gaps in it-to give the most glaring example, Harris says practically nothing about why Hezbollah was founded or who its founders were-in his telling, the group almost magically appears sometime around 1984. Other events of the civil war-particularly having to do with the Christian side-Harris relates in much greater detail. Harris also seems biased towards General Michel Aoun-he describes him more sympathetically then other civil war leaders, and cites, numerous times, his post-war interviews with Aoun.
In short, this book is OK as a reference, and the author obviously knows his subject-and, just as obviously, could have used a good editor.

Harris, an occasional resident of Lebanon since 1983 and now a university instructor in New Zealand, has produced the first reliable and readable history of Lebanon to appear in years. The first section introduces the country's geography, sects, and politics; the second provides a routine but useful overview of Lebanon's political history from 1920 to 1989; and the final one breaks new ground in English by making sense of the country's recent past, dealing at length with the Michel Aoun's to throw off the Syrian occupation, then the consequences of Aoun's defeat.

Harris is that rare foreign specialist of Lebanon who makes no excuses for the Syrian occupation there. He notes that since Syrian troops gained nearly full control of Lebanon in October 1990, the regime of Hafiz al-Asad has treated Lebanon as "a conquered state" and calls this era the "years of stagnation and humiliation" for ordinary Lebanese. Harris rightly interprets Syrian actions in Lebanon-economic and cultural no less than political and military-as intended to stabilize Syrian primacy. He reports how the Lebanese have responded to life in the world's only remaining satellite state by trying, against overwhelming odds, to maintain a civil society. His description brings to mind Poland in the 1950s, suggesting that while the Syrian yoke will be heavy and long, it will not permanently prevail.

Middle East Quarterly, March 1997

I use this book often in our PMO for Defense and Civil space systems and find it a much needed replacement for PMBOK.

First a previous reviewer claimed that this book is $9. It is actually free (in PDF format) from the DoD acquisition community site. Second the percentage change is reverse the previous. About 70% is new.

Either buy if you want a bound version or download to make your own book, because...

1. The areas of PMBOK that are vague and comfusing, lacking implementation details have been replaced.
2. The over simplification of spiral development is replaced with the standard Phase A/B C/D incremental PM processes
3. Much of the generalization in PMBOK has been replaced with specific actionalable outcomes.

This book gives some basic information, but 75% of the text refers to the PMBOK, which you also have to buy to read it. It gives a few tips...like you may have problems with your scope because there is a multiple ownership...All in all there are about 30 pages of information, so, in my opinion it is worth about 6 USD. If you are a public project manager it brings you no insite into how to do your job better.

The Eastern and Piedmont regions of North Carolina have much to offer travelers. "Homegrown Handmade: Art Roads and Farm Trails" is a travel guide focusing on these areas of North Carolina, listing countless art galleries, performances, agricultural fairs, festivals, and other attractions which will bring visitors much entertainment and interest. A must for anyone planning on visiting North Carolina, "Homegrown Handmade" is highly recommended for community library travel collections.

I'm a group tour director in eastern North Carolina, so I was excited when I learned of this book. What a let-down! There's absolutely nothing new here. The title seems to promise something unique, something "Homegrown [and/or] Handmade." While perhaps 10% of the places listed here actually do sell homegrown or handmade items, the rest are the common, everybody-stops-here, places included in every guide to this region. Paid for with tobacco settlement money, this purports to be an effort to inject something new into the economy of the former tobacco lands. (This means that western North Carolina isn't even mentioned!) If there are five tobacco-farming families represented here, I'd be surprised. This book seems like it is either paid advertising for a mixed bag of local establishments or was put together by people who never left their laptops. Tax payer's money has already been wasted on this -- don't waste yours!

As I said, if you feel like hitting your head against a brick wall, go ahead and buy this book. The previous reviewer notes that if you have had an introduction and a good math background, this book is good. Unfortunately, one of the authors uses this book as an *INTRODUCTORY* LP text in his graduate LP class, so the book hardly deserves any slack on that point. It was clearly intended to be an introductory text. However, even as an advanced text, the book is terrible for the following reasons.

First, it is clearly written by two people whose native language is not english. It would have been nice if someone whose native language WAS english had edited the book so some of the prose wasn't so confusing.

Second, the book constantly takes shortcuts in explanation. You are expected to understand all that there is to know about a concept simply by having a mathematical proof thrown at you. Better supporting explanations are necessary for such a difficult topic as LP, and the authors don't give them to you.

Finally, forget about any meaningful examples. If you are lucky, you will get one trivial example illustrating a concept, and that is it. The exercises are at least one, and in most cases more, levels of abstraction removed from the examples and explanations in the book. LP problems are hard enough without having to worry about figuring out material that should have been explained and illustrated before you reach the exercises, and having to spend most of your time simply trying to comprehend the poorly explained concepts in this book only makes it much worse.

So, to sum up, reading this book is like hitting your head against a wall. Buy something else, anything else, because you won't learn much from this one.

This is one of the best books in LP. It is very rigorous and concise. If you have had a previous introduction to the subject and a good math background you will find it extremely good. All the fundamental concepts are perfectly linked together. The Simplex and Interior Point Methods are covered using the same framework. If you are interested in modeling, this is not the book to buy.

The book was used to formulate a claim for extension of time on an electrical supply and construction contract where the main contractor failed to make the full site available for completion within the contract term. The section on the Principle of Prevention was especially useful. The main contractor disputed nearly every assertion in the claim except the Principle of Prevention, which was the whole basis of the claim for an extension of time and related costs.

This is not a useful book.

The reason for this is that the author is obviously from England. Therefore, all of the examples and case law that are referenced are based on English law. This is very interesting, but hardly meaningful to someone like myself who works in the contract administration field in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

If you're interested in construction contracts as they relate to English Law, then this is a great source of information. However, if you work in the United States, then this is a worthless reference book!

This book is almost useless if you don't know the mathematics and logic of structural equation modelling. Tragically if you know the mathematics and logic of structural equation modelling and seeking a deeper discussion this book would not help you either. Therefore it is hard to understand the target public and purpose of the author. In fact this book is a good application of a particular (and annoying) formula for pseudo-writing about mathematical concepts: whenever there is a need for rigour point out a reference, talk about concepts without any depth and without appealing to intuition and present computer outputs instead of solutions.
You may wish to have this (kind of) book only if you want to have a kind of tourist guide for the realm of structural equation modelling.

As a student of Dr. Kaplan's, we used this book as a way to remind us what the loads of greek symbols scrawled across our notes actually meant. While not written to be used with any specific program, I find the book to be a great reference when I haven't used SEM for a while and need to be reminded of some of its nuances. If you are trying to learn SEM, I suggest you get a book specifically written for the program you plan on using first. Once you understand the basics, this book comes in handy. Also useful if you have a burning desire to understand the barebones behind what SEM is and the math involved.

I think this book can help people to understand about few tips of healthier life. For sure we need information. However, the author did not concentrate more about really improving the things. Anyway, this book can give you an idea about living a health life