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Nice reference book on semiconductor tech.
Nice reference book on semiconductor tech ... Read more

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Excellent book on Work Systems and Information Systems Concepts
Full with real case studies that you can learn from. This book provides a clear explanation to the following major topics:
A great text book for Information System
This book is one of the best resources for Undrestanding Information Systems.This Book covers almost every consept for undrestanding modern Information Systems.It`s good for MIS courses for business & management students ... Read more

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YOU WANT TO BE IN PICTURES...!!
Are you a Macintosh filmmaker and DVD designer? If you are, then this book is for you. Author David Pogue, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that is designed to give you a grounding in professional filming and editing techniques.
OK, I see how that's done!
After searching Apple's support site for help with using these two programs, I turned to David Pogue's excellent manual.I have several of David's manuals and this was certainly up to his standards. Easy to read and follow.Although there is a tremendous amount of meat in the programs, you probably wouldn't discover all the potential without spending a little time with another excellent Missing Manual.I would recommend this to anyone interested in building a professional iMovie or creating a smooth DVD collection of favorite images or clips. And, with almost no effort at all, you can build an out of the ordinary slide show made complete with music, fades and a nice variety of special effects.

Be your own movie director yourself - painless!
It would be natural to think why does you need to buy this 22 dollars book, if iMovie and iDVD is so easy as Apple claims. But unfortunately, it is not easy as they say, (as all software vendors which want to earn more money by save the cost to print clear written manual) It need some extra help, with more English, I mean. In this point of view, this book is more than worth, in particular, you can learn more tips and advice to successfully make your own movie.
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watered-down, illustrated by amateur photos
I bought this book with the camera hoping to learn something that I would not be able to figure out effortlessly on my own using manual or pressing buttons. I wish I saved the money. Book has basic instructions from long-time user. No specific insights of the professional. Photos that are illustrating the book are plain and boring. No huge mistakes in light or composition, just ordinary objects in uninspired setting.
Digital Rebel Field Guide
A much better guide than the "Magic Lantern Guide", it still centers on the controls of the camera, but does go into better detail towards the end of the book, about how to take better photos with it, if you only had one book to buy, buy this one first!

Great guide
I got this book before a big trip and it really helped me take better pictures and use more of the great features of this camera. ... Read more

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Great book for VLSI DSP
It is very nice book, all the areas are explained in a very clear manner. This is an example for How the book should be!!!

Detailed,and thorough,an excellent book
Though being a beginner in VLSI systems,this book helped me get the grip in subjects I considered extremely difficult to grasp.It is well written,with many real-life examples and offers the reader wide range of knowledge . I think it is not only useful but absolutely indispensable for students and professional engineers alike .

Required Text for Digital Signal Processing Designers
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Good, but ONLY FOR WINDOWS
Great detail, but I was very disappointed to discover it is only for Windows.It does NOT cover PE4 for the Mac.There are some substantial differences between the applications on the two platforms.Good material, but now I have to figure out what to do on my Mac ...
Excellent Illustrations
What makes this book so useful is the preponderance of excellent illustrations! This book very clearly illustrates where the user should focus on the Elements' tool bars, option bars, menues, screens, etc.
Very helpful manual
The manual is essentially great for beginners and advanced users. Probably a little bit more illustrations would have inspired me to rate it with five stars. ... Read more

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A reasonable architecture development framework in a poor-quality package
My first impression of this book was poor due to its aesthetic problems: although it's a hardcover, it appears to have been "printed" on poor quality paper by a photocopier low on toner.Certain diagrams are rendered unreadable by the lack of color, and gray backgrounds are uneven and splotchy.
Excellent how-to book
This book is rather thin, but very dense. I can't remember reading a book that had so many bullet points and lists. While many books on the subject of Enterprise Architecture focus primarily on discussions, this book omits wordy definitions and usual fluff and "cuts to the chase" on how to analyze company's baseline, synthesize its target state using business drivers, and deliver a roadmap for transitioning to it.
Carbone nails it!
Carbone takes the role of the enterprise architect and lays out a step-by-step approach for success.She breaks down Zachman's theoretical framework into a practical how-to manual.Zachman taught you what data to collect; Carbone teaches you how to use that data.By using examples and exercises, Carbone guides you through the sometimes overwhelming process of identifying the business problems; then helps you develop key actionable items in order to solve these problems and meet business objectives. I strongly recommend this book as well as her training course that covers the same subject matter. ... Read more

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high speed circuitlayouttechniques
I bought this book based on a friend's recommendation seven years ago. I have used this book along with Henry Ott's book as a desk top reference for the past seven years.

Not the final word by any means, but a good introduction
Add Johnson and Graham to the list of people who can write large, highly technical books full of useful, pertinent information, and package it all in a way that's mostly very readable and which mixes just the right blend of rigorous academic structure with good old-fashioned "when all else fails, you might get away with this" hacks. This book is by no means a thorough, academic grounding in the subject matter, but it works well as an introduction for people who have some background in conventional electronics, yet little or no background in the specifics of high-speed digital design.
Mostly a very solid book
Great book.BTW, the author lists a LOT of errata on his website, enough to take over an hour to mark up my copy (5th printing).Although it's nice he documents this so well, it's a pain in the rear, so you may want to verify the edition you're buying to avoid this extra effort. On page vi, above ISBN, look for reverse sequence; example: "10 9 8 7" indicates 7th printing (cryptic, I know).Most recent printing is 15th edition (least amount of errata).The book is loaded with equations and diagrams.It would be nice to see more derivations, but at least the equations are there in the text, and in the appendix.I thought a few other reviewers were a bit harsh.The book is not perfect, but nevertheless a great resource.His second book is impressive, but more advanced; this original title is my "workhorse" book.also, check out his website (sigcon.com) for lots of articles and resources. ... Read more

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Give you clear look of little giant
This book gives you the bird-eye view of the world's renowned photo management software, it has some useful information for amateur photographer who is intended to use iPhoto software, written in plain english. It is little interesting that one-thirds of the entire book contents are cover how to choose the right digital camera and how to take a good shot, of course, you don't have to worry since its another two-thirds of pages are fulled about some kind of "soft" thing, which is about acquire, manage, tag, retouch and share or archive your pictures.
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iPhoto 6 - The Missing Manual
Another exemplary title in The Missing Manual series!
Even iPhoto veterans will appreciate the excellent coverage of new features offered in iPhoto 6 over previous versions of iPhoto.
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Dont go for 3rd edition even though it is a great text book!!!!!!!
The Fourth edition is being scheduled to be released in next month(sep 2006/oct 2006). So my advice is to wait for that textbook of new edition which costs $79.95 in the amazon itself

Perfectly confusing!
Too much information presented in a complicated format. It has it all but not a book to learn from. I don't recomend this to those who really want to understand the computer architecture and be able to design and calculate. Very difficult to understand and make sense of problems.

Thorough book, tough questions
This book is excellent - I've never seen another computer science book of its type or quality.It is essentially a hardware book for non-EE types; however, the authors literally leave no stone unturned (in chapter 5, for example, they state, "we have only included examples of memory designs that have found their way into commercial implementations").If a computer has ever, in the history of computing, used a particular design approach, that approach is detailed and compared carefully against all other existing approaches.When I first saw the size of the book, I was amazed that anybody could fill so much text with any information (useful or not) - after reading the first few chapters, I was amazed that they could fit so much information into such a relatively small space!
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Helpful!
"Digital SLR Cameras" is helpful for someone trying to decide whether to upgrade from a point-and-shoot camera to an SLR.Photos comparing the two camera types, as well as illustrating various SLR features are provided throughout the material.Noise, depth of field, lens dust, exposure, histograms, different file storage formats, infrared options, and basic editing were all covered.
Good Book, but...
Having recently decided to move to the DSLR world, I needed to learn how to shoot pictures in mode other than Full Auto.
Inspiring.This book will get you moving with your DSLR
Anyone who wants to learn about digital SLR cameras and photography should have this book at their side.It starts off simple with plenty of good information for beginners, but then dumps into more advanced ideas and techniques.
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PHP and MySQL go hand in hand; the former has been carefully adapted, through the efforts of the open-source community, to the latter. For situations that require dynamic content but don't merit the complexity and development time of Java or .NET enterprise applications, the PHP language and the MySQL database server fit the bill perfectly. That's the point Hugh Williams and David Lane make in Read more

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Disappointingly poor index
I'm new to PHP and MySQL, but a programmer for over 3 decades. I'm customizing some PHP code, using code examples for ideas. When I (a) see something I want to understand better or (b) want to find the PHP analog for basic functions, I naturally turn to the index to try to find the information I need. However, I found the index very disappointing because of what it doesn't have. For example, simple and basic keywords are not in the index: "comment", "logical operator", "and", "or", etc. I'm going to have order a different book as a PHP reference.

The best starting point to php and mysql
I bought this book with the hope I could learn just enought to get me started with web application development. I only hadlittle programming experience at that time, I I didn't even have any experience with databases. Well. This book was the perfect introduction to web applications. From security to authentication, from php basics to multi-table join sql queries, this book got me into this world, and I appreciate it so much because I am working now in web development, thanks to what I learned from here.
Excellent Introduction Book & Reference
This book is an excellent introduction to PHP, MySQL, and the interaction of the two. It has a few chapters introducing PHP, then a few introducing MySQL, and then walks through the steps necessaryto build a functioning dynamic website. They also include an elaborate and detailed case study of a Winestore application the author's developed.
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tackles a conceptual discontuity
Agarwal and Lang offer a pedagogy to tackle a serious disconnect that often arises in this field. At the low level of physics and electrical engineering, the EE student learns of basic device physics of such circuit elements as a PN diode or a MOSFET. Everything here is inherently analog. So you get I-V curves that characterise the devices, say. The book gives this good coverage.
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Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain
It's a book very interested about language in mind and speech comprehension. I read a short comment in BBC Focus magazine and I wish to read because it's very easy to learn the misteries of mind in cognitive science applied to language and psichology.

A fun book
It is not a typical "hacks" book in that it does not tell you how to utilize you brain more effectively or do neat things.It *does*have a lot of exercises that show you cool things on how your brain works with sections describing how your brain works - and a number of experiments (blind spot, Magnet interaction with the brain, word parsing in the the mind, and so on). This book goes very well with a recent title called _Mind Wide Open_ by Steven Johnson.
Interesting reading
I found this book to be interesting in the way that it presents it's topics. It was insightful and worth the purchase. It is the type of book that you select chapters that interest you as opposed to going cover to cover. ... Read more

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A very useful,easy to read book on sv and verification
if you want to learn systemverilog and its application on verification, this is book for you. The book includes lots of good /short examples, help you better understand the concepts and discussions. If you have doubts, it is very easy to type in the coes to verify.A must have book to get yourself familiar with sv and verification.

Great Examples !
This book is a must if you are going to code in SystemVerilog. Chris is very knowledgeable about the language features and great at presenting these features in a very compact way. The examples alone make the book worthwhile.
This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn SV
I got this book to learn SystemVerilog being one of the new IEEE HDL and Testbench development languages. It is a great book and covers everything you need to know about SystemVerilog as a testbench development language. If one is coming from a HW development background, this is the book to read to learn the basic concepts of Object Oriented Programming and the additional bells and whistle which System Verilog added to Verilog.
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Tanenbaum is good...Gotta give him that.
I'm only 1/3 through the book so far, but it's been good.There's even a few snippits of dry humor that make it a little more interesting.As far as breadth and depth of material goes, it starts out assuming you know very little about hardware/architecture, and takes you step by step from there.Assuming the book stays as interesting and downright wooty, I'll give it 5 stars.It's not very often that I find a computer book that I'm willing to read cover to cover.

Classical CS authors
Tanenbaum is one of the CS classical authors. Any CS student or instructor should own a copy of this updated edition of Structured Computer Organization.
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Too much emphasis on photoshop. Light on photographic technique and equipment.
This book is OK. I was expecting a lot more emphasis on the artistic aspects of digital photography and more information on technique. I was also expecting a lot more information on equipment. More than half of the book is devoted to editing and managing photos using photoshop.
Good content =Almost illegible picture caption & descriptions
While the content of the book is fine, I find the choice of typeface and color intensity of the picture captions and descriptions very very hard to read. The picture descriptions are in a very light grey color. Even close to a very good reading light, I had to strain to read the descriptions! I find it hard to understand the choice of light grey for text from a design and clarity standpoint. Showing the book to others confirmed my criticism. While I do use reading glasses, why was such a light grey color for picture captions and descriptions chosen?

Excellent
This is the best book I have on digital photography.Glad I bought it. ... Read more

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DAM good book
Extremely usefull roadmap to navigating the new territory of digital workflow.If you are a professional photographer shooting digitally, this book is the essential guide toeverything you need to capitalize on digital's opportunity and avoid time consuming mistakes.I feel like an evangelist, as I've bought a handfull of copies for colleagues.

Finally, a great guide to managing thousands of photos
One of the most difficult realities of managing thousands of digital photo images is how to label them in a consitent manner so that you can easily retrieve photos and keep track of photos that have been altered. Another important consideration is if you will be able to read the information as software and hardware changes occur. Peter Krogh makes logical suggestions and tells you why he chose to label an image in a particular manner. The DAM Book also has great suggestions on backing up photos. I have always struggled with labeling/numbering consistency, Peter Krogh makes it all very logical.

Essential Resource for Photographers
Any photographer who is serious about their craft needs to take a good look at The DAM Book.This book was written by a true professional that knows their stuff and will assist you in getting your photos from the the boxes and boxes scattered no doubt throughout your house and into the digital repository that is a better place to store, access, and retrieve the precious prints that you work so hard on producing.
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Book is kind of outdated
Book is based on 2.4 kernel. Since we are currently at 2.6 kernel this book does seem to have outdated information

Good guide
It would be a good guide to a person to prepare for a project to develop embedded linux system.It gives you the information what is necessar, what is work well and how to get them. Butyou should have some experience on linux language.
disappointed
I read this book in about 2 hours and the contents really disappoint me.I expected the book to discuss in details of the issues related to embedded linux.And to a degree, this book is like a dictionary of all the terms you might encounter during the development and only a few direct examples.And given how fast the Linux kernel, open source packages evolve over time, the examples given in this book is totally outdated.
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