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Grand Obsession: Harvey Butchart and the Exploration of Grand Canyon»rank: 85471by: Elias Butler, Tom Myers
: :Winner of a 2008 National Outdoor Book Award, a 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY), and named a Book of the Year by the Pima County Library, 'Grand Obsession' continues to gather recognition for its striking portrayal of a man who felt compelled to do what no one had dared attempt in modern times: explore the deepest, most inhospitable reaches of the Grand Canyon, crown jewel of America's national parks - something which took decades to achieve and exacted a great personal cost. Writers Elias Butler and Thomas M. Myers (co-author of the book 'Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon') poured 15 years of research into this book. Legendary Grand Canyoneer ... |
The Art of Software Testing, Second Edition»rank: 559503by: Glenford J. Myers
: :This long-awaited revision of a bestseller provides a practical discussion of the nature and aims of software testing. You'll find the latest methodologies for the design of effective test cases, including information on psychological and economic principles, managerial aspects, test tools, high-order testing, code inspections, and debugging. Accessible, comprehensive, and always practical, this edition provides the key information you need to test successfully, whether a novice or a working programmer. Buy your copy today and end up with fewer bugs tomorrow. |
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Best Newspaper Writing, 2008-2009 Edition (Best Newspaper Writing)»rank: 84781by: Tom Huang, Steve Myers
: :For more than 25 years, Poynter faculty have presented the year's best newswriting and community service photojournalism with the winners and finalists of the American Society of Newspaper Editors annual competition. An ideal reader for aspiring journalists, the volume provides quality models students can study and emulate. Poynter's renowned faculty-- including Roy Peter Clark, Karen Dunlap, Tom French, Kenny Irby, Chip Scanlan, and Keith Woods-- take your students 'Behind the Story' with the book's much heralded features. In-depth interviews with the winners let readers benefit from unique insight into how these reporters developed their stories into, in some cases, Pulitzer Prize-winning pieces. Ethical challenges are tackled, as are discussions of how to ... |
Handbook of Global Supply Chain Management»rank: 493277from: Sage Publications, Inc
: :This state-of-the-art Handbook provides a comprehensive understanding and assessment of the field of global supply chain management (GSCM). Editors John T. Mentzer, Matthew B. Myers, and Theodore P. Stank bring together a distinguished group of contributors to describe and critically examine the key perspectives guiding GSCM, taking stock of what we know (and do not know) about them. Key Features: Identifies emerging developments and delineates their significance to the practice of GSCM Examines many methods and perspectives on GSCM that have emerged from logistics, operations, marketing, management, economics, sociology, personnel, information systems, and international relations Employs top flight international contributors from both academia and practice who share their unique perspectives and insights ... |
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Professional JSP : Using JavaServer Pages, Servlets, EJB, JNDI, JDBC, XML, XSLT, and WML»rank: 964503by: Karl Avedal, Danny Ayers, Timothy Briggs, George Gonchar, Naufal Khan, Peter Henderson, Mac Holden, Andre Lei, Dan Malks, Sameer Tyagi, Stephan Osmont, Paul Siegmann, Gert Van Damme, Steve Wilkinson, Stefan Zeiger, Ari Halberstadt, Carl Burnham, John Timney, Tom Myers, Alexander Nakhimovsky
: :Professional JavaServer Pages covers a wide variety of areas including design and architecture, JSPs and their relation to J2EE (Servlets, EJBs, JDBC etc) as well as extensive coverage of the tag extension mechanism that allows you to customize the tags you use in your pages to the data you're presenting. Readers are given an introduction to JSP, explaining how they relate to servlets, showing the tags, and creating beans to encapsulate business logic, to keep web page design simple. Further chapters cover database access with JDBC and connection pooling, JSP debugging, and web application architecture using JSP and servlets. After considering security issues in JSP web applications, the book concludes with seven ... |
Sacramento Impressions (Impressions (Farcountry Press))»rank: 531450by: Tom, Sally & Jeff Myers
: :Sacramento Impressions is a vivid portrayal by photographers Tom, Sally, and Jeff Myers of California s capital city, Sacramento, also known as the City of Trees. Featuring an informative foreword by Sacramento s mayor, the Honorable Heather Fargo, as well as informative captions, this collection highlights the dynamic city in the heart of California. Longtime residents, the Myers capture Sacramento in all of its many moods: from the brilliantly-colored fireworks at the Capitol to the silhouetted fishermen quietly fishing along the American River Parkway; from the stately, checkerboard fields of rice in the Sacramento Valley to the horse-drawn stagecoaches during Gold Rush Days in Old Sacramento. The Myers images capture the sights ... |
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Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services»rank: 631686by: Alexander Nakhimovsky, Tom Myers
: : readable, accessible and eminently practical... — TechBookReport ...quite a good book about writing software to consume and provide web services. — Slashdot While many books are focused on the underlying technologies of web services and others are dedicated to providing web services, few books show how to consume web services. Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services provides a thorough review of the technologies and techniques for connecting client applications to services of all kinds. Using a decidedly hands-on approach, authors Alexander Nakhimovsky and Tom Myers present extensive examples of programming with XML, SOAP, REST, and WSDL in JavaScript (tested in IE and Mozilla) and in Java (using open-source ... |
XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services With JSP and ASP»rank: 1689780by: Alexander Nakhimovsky, Tom Myers
: : XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services with JSP and ASP provides a fast-moving introduction to the XML family of technologies for programmers. Although written with a focus upon JSP- and ASP-based XML solutions, the book presents the material from a language-independent point of view that benefits all developers, whatever their language. The code is written to be readable by all. Chapters 1 through 3 cover the foundations of XML—well-formed and valid documents, DTDs and namespaces—but XLink, XPointer, and elements of XSLT are introduced early so the examples can be interesting and useful. Chapters 4 through 6 cover XML processing using SAX, DOM, and XSLT, separately and in various combinations. Each ... |
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Teacher's Edition Treat Shop (New Enlarged Edition) (Treasury Of Literature)»rank: 2056793from: Charles E. Merrill Books
: :Elementary school literature book with teacher's appendix featuring these stories: 'Dalyrimple'; 'Little Boy with a Big Horn'; 'The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy'; 'The Boss of the Barnyard'; 'Tammie and That Puppy'; 'The Hare and the Tortoise'; 'Valiant's Lamb'; 'Mouse'; 'The City Mouse and the Country Mouse'; 'Too Many Cats'; 'The Horse Who Lived Upstairs'; 'The Buccaneer'; 'The Elves and the Shoemaker'; 'The Bremen Town Musicians'; 'The Child and the Fairies'; 'The Fisherman and His Wife'; 'A Fairy Voyage'; 'Seven at One Blow'; 'The Sleeping Beauty'; 'The Old Man and the Monkeys'; 'Marco Comes Late'; 'The Three Wishes'; 'Captain Joe and the Eskimo'; 'Silly Jack'; 'Only My Opinion'; 'How Many Donkeys?'; 'Minnie ... |
Professional Wap (Programmer to programmer)»rank: 1197677by: Charles Arehart, Shashikiran Guruprasad, Alex Homer, Ric Howell, Stephan Kasippillai, Rob Machin, Tom Myers, Alexander Nakhimovsky, Luca Passani, Chris Pedley, Richard Taylor, Marco Toschi
: :The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) provides a universal open standard for bringing Internet content and advanced services to mobile phones and other wireless devices. Designed from the start to take account of the limitations of today's devices - small screen, low power and low bandwidth - WAP is the platform for the new generation of 'media phones'. Professional WAP gives a broad overview of WAP and associated technologies - what it is, why it's useful and how to take the best advantage of it. It covers the WAP architecture and protocols, what WAP tools and servers are available for developers today and how to WAP-enable your web server. Practical examples will show ... |