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Books to read if you're planning a vacation in "Chambers", sorted by average review score:
MCAD/MCSD Visual Basic(r) .NET (tm) Certification All-in-One Exam Guide
Published in Hardcover by McGraw-Hill Osborne Media (14 February, 2003)
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Great Detail.Anyone will tell you that one book alone can not prepare you for Microsoft Certification. And I have to agree 100%. With that said I found this book detailed(technically) in a way that other books that aim at being the only certification book you need. I started reading the books on the subject and while the language was warm and fuzzy and easily kept your attention, I really didn't get much in the way of technical detail. The examples in the All in One book helped me nail down the more complex topics like delegates and remoting that other books only lightly touched. The one negative to this book is you need some experience in order to understand it. If you lack experience then my advice would be to buy both the MSPress Study Guides and this All in One. Use the MS book to get a feel for the concepts and use the All in One to start coding examples.
Mommy Stayed in Bed This Morning: Helping Children Understand Depression
Published in Paperback by Herald Pr (April, 2002)
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Overall a good book, but lacking on some pointsI've been doing alot of searching lately for books to help me explain my depression (actually I'm Bipolar) to my children. This book helped, but wouldn't be the first one I'd recommend. My 8 yr old daughter and I read this together, and it wasn't her first choice of the books we've read about depression, either. I did like that it included a section on the mom going to the hospital, something I've had to do several times. I didn't expect the spiritual overtones to it. I didn't object to them, since I am a Christian, but my daughter found it a bit confusing since the Sunday School teacher and pastor in the book are supportive and helpful of the family in the story and our church has been anything but supportive. Overall a good book for explaining clinical depression, but having read it and others, this wouldn't be my first choice.
Music for Analysis: Examples from the Common Practice Period and the Twentieth Century
Published in Spiral-bound by Wadsworth Publishing (24 August, 1995)
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Good for teaching or study!This book is organized by terms of harmonic content. The book is divided into three sections: Diatonic Materials, Chromatic Materials, and Twentieth Century Materials. It contains an analytic checklist and sample analysis that can be used as a guide to the student. An index of composers makes it easy to study the musical style of a particular composer. The excerpts can be played by any competant keyboard player. This book contains mostly excerpts, but a few sections that contain a complete piece or movement of a piece. The selections are not analyzed, which makes for fun practice at analyzing them yourself!
The Mystery of Choice
Published in Hardcover by Prentice Hall (June, 1997)
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Mystery and Supernatural Love StoriesRobert W. Chambers is best known for "The King in Yellow", his 1895 horror classic. He returned in 1897 with "The Mystery of Choice".
The highlights of the book are the three Dick Darrel stories; The Purple Emperpr; Pompe Funèbre; and The Messenger. Of the three, The Messenger is the best and also the only supernatural story.
Out of the remaining tails; The White Shadow & The Key to Grief - are okay but predicable; Passeur - is haunting; and A Matter of Interest - is laughable in light of modern paleontology.
The book ends with a four page poem called Eavoi. I am not much for supernatural love poems of the last century.
This is not the haunting madness of "The King of Yellow" but The Messenger, The Purple Emperor, and Passeur make it worth the money.
For more information on the life and works of Robert W. Chambers see The Chambers research Project at: www.ioc.net/~larryloc/yking001.html
Natural Gas & Electric Power in Nontechnical Language
Published in Hardcover by Pennwell Pub (April, 1999)
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Good Introduction to Natural Gas and Power GenerationChambers covers a lot of material in enough detail to promote an understanding of the broad issues involved in natural gas and its relation to an increasingly deregulated electric power market -- but not in so much detail that a reader new to the subject will be lost and confused. Certain topics are treated a bit too roughly, a good example being the discussion of deregulation, which skims the surface of the government's complicity in impeding the NG industry's progress and doesn't frame the issues as clearly as it could. The book's editing is not the best; there are spelling and grammar errors, and some of the graphics are unclear. Chambers' writing, however, is generally concise and lucid, and her topics are on target. The glossary is helpful. Altogether a book that does what it seems intended to do. Now, if Pennwell could just sharpen the editing and bring the price down a bit. . .
Orchestral Technique: A Manual for Students
Published in Paperback by Oxford University Press (September, 1982)
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Orchestral Technique - ReviewWritten by Gordon Jacob, a professor of composition and orchestration at the Royal College of Music, Orchestral Technique serves to be a manual/reference book to any composer or music student that is looking to expand and enforce their knowledge of composing for orchestra quickly without having to wade through a lot of waffle. This book covers the full range of instruments used in orchestras individually, it also addresses composing for whole sections (strings/brass woodwinds etc) and also spends some time on composing for small orchestras and full orchestras and the differences between than. At the end of each chapter there are helpful exercises, there are also further suggestions for exercises in orchestration in the appendix. I found this book to be very helpful in learning more about the details of orchestration; I keep it close and refer to it all the time. Although it is not as long as other books, it was very straight to the point, and very concise and above all, easy to understand.
A Palace for the Antichrist: Saddam Hussein's Drive to Rebuild Babylon and It's Place in Bible Prophecy
Published in Paperback by New Leaf Pr (October, 1996)
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Solid information for prophecy studiesThe title of the book is slightly misleading. The first few chapters are indeed about Saddam Hussein's rebuilding of Babylon. Yet, the rest of the book educates the reader about what events will happen before, during, and after the "rebuilding of Babylon". If you are interested in the study of prophecy then this book will interest you. If you are looking for an indepth study of Iraq, Hussein, and/or the rebuilding of Babylon then chances are you will come away disappointed. Fortunately for me, it was like finding a diamond in a pile of rocks and God allowed me to gain a blessing of the spirit while reading.
Pentjak-Silat: The Indonesian Fighting Art,
Published in Hardcover by HarperCollins ()
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TreasureThis book covers the techniques of the various styles of Silat. At 166 pgs and 6 chapters, the book is best divided into 4 sections:
Striking tools/history (hand techniques covered like in karate manuals only with the weapons context of Silat Hands vs the Knife (that's right, you get that FIRST) Training Exercises (stances and 15 technique drills) Combat situations (covers empty hand attacks and some ground work)
The perfect companion to Draeger's "Fighting and Weapons of the Indonesian Archipelago", this is more technique oriented ....... I personally liked the hands vs knife section of the book.
Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms
Published in Hardcover by CRC Press (27 June, 1995)
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genetic algorithmIT WAS A NICE BOOK TO BE REVIEVED AS I WANT TO DO MY DIISERTATION ON THIS TOPIC I WOULD BR GRATEFUL TO YOU IF YOU KINDLY HELP ME IN ANY MANNER.
Programming with Data: A Guide to the S Language
Published in Paperback by Springer Verlag (August, 1998)
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A good tutorial on the S programming language.This is the first book I've found that approaches the S programming language as more than an inconvenient detail that you have to learn to get to the cool statistics functions in "S-Plus." It's much more accessible than most of the books on S or S-Plus for people who aren't actually statisticians, but need to use the language for some reason.