Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the ...
 From Amazon.com: It's remarkable how far we've traveled into the Information Age without coming up with a very good idea of what information actually is. Technologists define information as bits and bytes, but that seems too precise somehow to get at the [... more]
CDN$14.59
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Marshall Brain's How Stuff Works
Good ideas, bad editing: Overall this is a good book, filled with all kinds of interesting information. However, I felt that the level of editing polish was poor. Typos and illustration errors are frequent, and the writing style is uneven and awkward at [... more]
CDN$37.99
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Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, ...
Was 5 Stars a year ago: Still a good reference. Funny someone wrote they had yet to find anything of value in it because just the other day I needed a concise review of XML schema. I found the XML primer from this book to be the best most clearly written [... more]
CDN$59.99
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Design and Implementation of DSL-Based Access Solutions
From Amazon.com: As one of the most cost-effective ways to get large quantities of data across a plain pair of copper strands, digital subscriber line (DSL) technologies have proven popular among service providers. Design and Implementation of DSL-Based [... more]
CDN$86.19
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Oracle9i RMAN Backup & Recovery
book just adequate: Both authors apparently have considerable experience in oracle and rman. The book appears to have been put together very quickly perhaps too quickly. Much of the serious work done with oracle is done on unix platforms but almost all [... more]
CDN$54.95
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Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System
Monopoly: The information is helpful and appears to be complete. The empirical knowledge implied by frequent contrasts between the specifications and what happens "on the wire" is impressive. One criticism is that the prose is conversational [... more]
CDN$48.99
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e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information into ...
From Amazon.co.uk: It is widely acknowledged that businesses today must harness the Net to effectively utilise the myriad details they glean from--and then pass around to--their various stakeholders. But how best to do that? e-Business Intelligence, by [... more]
CDN$44.95
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The Number of Magic
buy this CD: This is one of Kirk's best releases since CV broke up. More dub-oriented with heavy sampling of a variety of bizzare instruments and tripped out tape delays. Laid-back grooves, but complex enough to keep the listener interested. I'd [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Computer Vision: Three-Dimensional Data from Images
very useful for surface reconstruction: I have used this book for preparing some of my lectures on computer vision. In particular in areas such as stereo and shape-from-shading, it belonged to the textbooks that were most useful for me: The explanations [... more]
CDN$118.36
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Magickal Weddings: Pagan Handfasting Traditions for Your ...
Wicca, Weddings & Magic!: My partner and I wanted our union to be special. We found bits and bytes of information around, but Magickal Weddings seems to have it all. This treaure makes it so easy to manage all the details and make the right choices. [... more]
CDN$16.95
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Voice, Video, and Data Network Convergence: Architecture ...
awful: Replete with errors, makes claims that are not accurate. The book is poorly organized and explains concepts in an elliptical fashion. Makes you wonder, the book has three authors all of whomoverstate their credentials. Ellis is suposedly an expert [... more]
CDN$80.17
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User Illusion
From Amazon.com: The "user illusion" in computing is the desktop graphical user interface (GUI): the friendly, comprehensible illusion presented to the user to conceal all the bouncing bits and bytes that do the actual work. Tor Noerretranders [... more]
CDN$25.00
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