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I was disappointed in this book. Most of the book covers things that directly relate to Unix, and not necessarily to korn shell programming. However, if you are new to unix and/or new to korn shell scripting then this should be a good book for you.

Be sure the book you order has color illustrations, not black and white ones. This version may be the black-and-white photocopy I've seen of the original classic published by the Theosophical Society. Both the original and the black-and-white version present the same textual descriptions, which are vivid, wise and beautifully crafted. The original presents 26 wondrous and compelling color illustrations, including health auras and mental, astral and causal bodies as seen by Bishop Leadbeater. However, a recent and terribly disappointing publication from a different publisher merely presents crude black and white illustrations, which do no justice to the text. I recommend contacting the Theosophical Society to be sure you obtain the authentic version.

A sound and simple basic text on the tactical basics of getting change accepted and implemented. It is written within the framework of a traditional hierarchical organization and appears to be pitched at first line management within such organizations.

Let me start off by saying my attention span is too short to have read this book completely. The good news is that the book is only about 200 pages, so I probably will read all of it.

There are a lot of great ideas and some great information contained in the book. If you've been wanting to limit results returned from an RPG program without rewriting, or if you've heard of OPNQRYF but have been afraid to try it, this book is for you.

I would have given it 4 stars, but it needs to be sent back to the technical editor. There are extra characters, missing characters, missing attributes like "Ten raised to the first power (101)..." (missing the superscript), just plain typos (unmatched quotes on command line parameters). Most of the errors are in examples that will fail because of them.

Fix the "typos" and this book might even be a 5 (haven't read it all yet...)

For the TEC Administator, this is a reasonable book. But do not expect to learn a lot about the Tivoli TME...This is clearly a technical reference...First read the Introduction to Tivoli Enterprise Redbook.

If you are well versed in Tivoli already this book may provide some answers. Unfortunately there are only a few books on TEC and in all honesty, the TEC User Manual and Reference Manual are the best.

This book assumes a working knowledge of scripting, Unix, NT and SQL. Also only half of this book is text, the rest is taken up with large graphic screenshots of the Tivoli Desktop.

The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science provides the reader with issues of methodology and theory and examples of biographical methods in use. In general, I found the chapters on methodology and theory to be both useful and clearly written. This was especially true of Case histories and families and social processes (Chpt. 3.) However I was a bit disappointed with the second part of the book that provides examples from biographical research. In my opinion, the cases chosen for the book will be of less interest to researchers and students working outside of Europe, and specifically, outside of Germany. For a wider take on biographical methods, I would recommend The Oral History Reader (Perks & Thomson, eds.).

A general overview of VBScript. Definately not the best book. If you are used to books like Professional Active Server Pages (Wrox) or JavaScript for the World Wide Web (Peachpit Press), you will be sorely disappointed by this book. One good thing about it is that it gives review questions at the end of every chapter, which I liked, but as far as information goes, it is not the best.

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I bought this book, hoping to find a tutorial approach. The book claims to have 'working code examples on disk', with 'hundreds of code examples'. Note that each of these code examples is around 10 lines.

While these two claims are true, the buyer should be aware that this is not intended to be a tutorial book, more a reference. It is a reference of exactly how to write the syntax of every WordBasic language element. Once you know the command you want to use, and what you want to use it for, this book will tell you the setup and exact syntax to use that command. For this purpose, it is excellent.

This book is not intended to be a guide or tutorial for what commands you should use, and it is not useful for that purpose.

I have read books about HTML, JavaScript, C++ and honestly THIS BOOK IS THE WORST that I have ever read! I wanted to learn some XML from this book, it starts talking about its capabilities, use, implementation, functionality, examples, examples, blah, blah, blah... zzzzz.
If you want to learn how to use XML take my advice, do not consider this book. However, if you know XML this book has examples of how can XML be implemented, though I think it is not worth its price.

This was a very disappointing book.

Examples are simplistic and not well thought out. There are very basic shells for doing some parsing tasks a lot of different ways, but very shallow or missing rationale for the different alternatives. It felt like the author came up with a bunch of solutions without understanding the problems XML can address. Having E-Commerce in the title is a joke that hangs on one of the recurring examples throughout the book.

Numerous gramatical and content errors. The structure of the book is light as well - examples before concepts and lots of white space & big type.

Thinking about using XML to deliver information from a database to a browser? Planning a Web-based commercial application where the customer connects via browser? Or just wondering what all the fuss over XML in Web-based commerce is about? XML is worth making a fuss about. It promises to become a kind of lingua franca for information interchange between applications, for communicating data among distributed components of applications, for delivery of data from databases to browsers, and for customizing sophisticated documents for readers with different points of view of the document. The book under review starts at a high level: an executive summary and a set of motivating examples of applications of XML. A system architect can get a strong feeling for how XML can contribute to Web-based applications. The second part goes into examples of applications that give the reader a deeper understanding of XML technology and its many uses. The third part drills down for a close look at XML and related standards. It is rare to find a book that can make this broad a survey of possibilities without turning into a lot of fluff. This one succeeds by living up to the "by example" part of its title. Examples have been chosen to illustrate the possibilities in a meaningful and compelling manner and described in enough detail to be convincing. The reader with a need for a broad architectural understanding of the uses of XML and its technical possibilities will come away with enough detail for a deep appreciation of its capabilities. The reader who intends to delve deeper-to actually plan and design applications of this technology-will get both the broad overview and a guided tour of the W3C Recommendations and Working Documents. The next step for that reader is to read the W3C documents. This book gives you the perspective you need to understand them. One warning: some of the related technology, especially the eXtensible Style Language (XSL) is in a state of flux, and the details in this book are out of date. This doesn't detract from the overall understanding of the capabilities of the technology that you will gain from McGrath's treatment of the subject, but you will have to start to follow the standards development process more directly if you need a working knowledge of the technology. This book is part of a series-the Charles F. Goldfarb Series on Open Information Management-with uniformly high quality content and lucid style, and slightly disappointing proofreading. With the rush to catch the XML wave, we can forgive a few typos if the thinking isn't slipshod. Here it isn't. Other books in this series cover SGML and XML from other vantage points, such as document publishing.