greglu-solr-ruby 0.0.7

data/examples/delicious_library/dl_importer.rb

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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# TODO: distill common shell script needs into common file for parsing parameters for Solr URL, input filename, -debug, etc
+#       script/runner or script/console-like, from Rails.  A data mapper would be a great generalizable piece.
+
+require 'solr'
+
+solr_url = ENV["SOLR_URL"] || "http://localhost:8983/solr"
+dl_filename = ARGV[0]
+debug = ARGV[1] == "-debug"
+
+if dl_filename == nil
+  puts "You must pass a filename as an option."
+  exit
+end
+
+source = Solr::Importer::DelimitedFileSource.new(dl_filename)
+
+# Exported column names
+# medium,associatedURL,boxHeightInInches,boxLengthInInches,boxWeightInPounds,boxWidthInInches,
+# scannednumber,upc,asin,country,title,fullTitle,series,numberInSeries,edition,aspect,mediacount,
+# genre,price,currentValue,language,netrating,description,owner,publisher,published,rare,purchaseDate,rating,
+# used,signed,hasExperienced,notes,location,paid,condition,notowned,author,illustrator,pages
+mapping = {
+  :id => Proc.new {|data| data[:upc].empty? ? data[:asin] : data[:upc]},
+  :medium_facet => :medium,
+  :country_facet => :country,
+  :signed_facet => :signed,
+  :rating_facet => :netrating,
+  :language_facet => :language,
+  :genre_facet => Proc.new {|data| data[:genre].split('/').map {|s| s.strip}},
+  :title_text => :title,
+  :full_title_text => :fullTitle,
+  :asin_display => :asin,
+  :notes_text => :notes,
+  :publisher_facet => :publisher,
+  :description_text => :description,
+  :author_text => :author,
+  :pages_text => :pages,
+  :published_year_facet => Proc.new {|data| data[:published].scan(/\d\d\d\d/)[0]}
+}
+
+indexer = Solr::Indexer.new(source, mapping, :debug => debug)
+indexer.index do |record, solr_document|
+  # can modify solr_document before it is indexed here
+end
+
+indexer.solr.commit unless debug
+indexer.solr.optimize unless debug

data/examples/delicious_library/sample_export.txt

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+medium	associatedURL	boxHeightInInches	boxLengthInInches	boxWeightInPounds	boxWidthInInches	scannednumber	upc	asin	country	title	fullTitle	series	numberInSeries	edition	aspect	mediacount	genre	price	currentValue	language	netrating	description	owner	publisher	published	rare	purchaseDate	rating	used	signed	hasExperienced	notes	location	paid	condition	notowned	platform	key	developer	esrbrating	players	author	illustrator	pages	director	stars	features	mpaarating	theatricalDate	minutes	artist	conductor	tracks	tracklisting
+game							0711719721123	B00006Z7HU	us	ATV Offroad Fury 2	ATV Offroad Fury 2				Video Game/ CD-ROM		Online/ Bike/ Video Games	$19.99	$4.40		4	ATV Offroad Fury 2 provides expansive off-road racing gameplay packed with more courses, modes, tricks, and ATVs, plus online gameplay via the network adapter to heighten the racing experience. Players will choose from more than 20 licensed and team-sponsored ATVs from top-tier manufacturers and off-road sponsors. Every featured ATV will be true to spec, allowing for realistic handling and reactions in every situation.		Sony Computer Entertainment	20-03-2003		07-02-2007	5									PlayStation2			Teen														
+book							9780966075007	0966075005	us	Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary	Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary				Paperback		Chinese/ Polyglot/ Dictionaries; Polyglot	$19.95	$18.00		4.5	This dictionary is designed to help students understand, appreciate and remember Chinese characters. It has the following features: -Every character entry includes a brief traditional Chinese etymology. -Genealogical charts highlight the connections between characters, showing the creation of more than 4000 characters from less than 200 simple pictographs and ideographs. -Mandarin standards in China and Taiwan are distinguished. -Simplified forms for each character are given. -Character entries list all words which use the character in any position, allowing a word to be found even if the first character is unknown. -English definitions are referenced in an English-Chinese index. -A word pronunciation index allows students to directly search for an overheard word without having to guess the initial character. -A stroke count index lists every character by number of strokes.		Zhongwen.Com	01-08-1998		07-02-2007																	550										
+book							9780195840971	0195840976	us	Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary	Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary				Paperback		English (All)/ Chinese/ Linguistics	$12.95	$3.00		3.5	With nearly 20,000 entries in each, this bilingual dictionary is ideal for travelers and students of Chinese or English. Among the dictionary's many features are:/ *Simplified Chinese characters as well as Pinyin/ romanization / *Pronunciation using international phonetic symbols/ *Numerous examples of usage in both languages/ *Appendices including consonants and vowels of the/ Chinese phonetic alphabet, and names and / abbreviations of China's provinces, regions,/ and municipalities/ *Handy pocket-sized format		Oxford University Press, USA	01-07-1994		11-02-2007																	1114										
+movie							0025192022425	0783226985	us	Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story	Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story				DVD		Biography/ Drama/ Action & Adventure/ Documentary	$14.98	$5.62		4	This enjoyable and touching biography of martial-arts film star Bruce Lee stars Jason Scott Lee (no relation), an actor with a lively face and natural intensity, who makes every moment of this film compelling. Directed by Rob Cohen, Dragon traces Bruce Lee's slow rise over myriad obstacles--most of them race-based--to become an international superstar in films. Lee's origins are oddly set in San Francisco instead of his real home in Seattle, but then again there is plenty of artistic license going on as Cohen explores the actor's psyche through some powerful fantasy sequences. Lauren Holly is good as Lee's wife, Linda (whose book about her late husband inspired this movie). A scene involving Bruce's rescue of son Brandon (who died in a filmmaking accident in 1993) from a murderous spirit is plain spooky. The special-edition DVD release has a widescreen presentation, director interview, featurette, screen tests, closed captioning, optional French soundtrack, and optional Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh		Universal Studios	01-07-1998		07-02-2007																			Aki Aleong/ Eric Bruskotter/ John Cheung/ Chao Li Chi/ Sam Hau/ Lauren Holly/ Clyde Kusatsu/ Nancy Kwan/ Michael Learned/ Jason Scott Lee/ Kay Tong Lim/ Sterling Macer Jr./ Iain M. Parker/ Ong Soo Han/ Michelle Tennant/ Sven-Ole Thorsen/ Robert Wagner/ Luoyong Wang/ Ric Young	Closed-captioned/ Color/ Letterboxed/ Widescreen/ NTSC/ 2.35:1	PG-13	07-05-1993	120				
+movie							0018111924795	B0009IW92A	us	The Essential Sherlock Holmes	The Essential Sherlock Holmes				DVD	8	Mystery/ Drama/ Mystery & Suspense/ Sherlock Holmes	$29.99	$8.95		3.5	Dressed to Kill Terror By Night The Woman in Green Sherlock Holmes And the Secret Weapon A Study in Scarlet Silver Blaze Sherlock Holmes TV Series		Delta	07-06-2005		09-02-2007																			Essential Sherlock Holmes	Box set/ Color/ NTSC	NR						
+book							0073999151893	1569221863	us	Guitar Scale Guru: The Scale Book - Your Guide for Success!	Guitar Scale Guru: The Scale Book - Your Guide for Success!				Paperback		Guitar/ Instruction & Study/ Techniques	$14.95	$9.46		4.5	All of the essential diagrams, drawings and information concerning theory, scales, and their uses in one easy-to-use book! Covers the five essential scales for today's guitarists - major, major pentatonic, minor, minor pentatonic and blues - with a unique Linking System that makes it easy to understand scales like a pro!		Creative Concepts	01-02-2000		11-02-2007																	168										
+music							0019028394855	B000CC2XP6	us	Light Up Ahead	Light Up Ahead				Audio CD				$11.95		4	Track Listing: 1.going too 2.comin' after you 3.on the beam 4.dont know what 5.hide 6.signs 7.lower voice 8.bad side 9.light up ahead		TR Music	07-02-1995		07-02-2007	5		1																								
+music							0800314886006	B000B7PU66	us	Parallel Universe	Parallel Universe				Audio CD	2			$15.26			Contains Parallel Universe CD plus bonus Invisible Pagan Underdogs 13 track CD. 23 total tracks.		TR Music	07-02-2005		07-02-2007	5		1																								
+book							9781556152115	1556152116	us	Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (Tempus)	Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (Tempus)				Paperback		Careers/ Compilers	$9.95	$19.92		5			Tempus Books	07-02-1989		07-02-2007																	400										
+book							9781904978367	1904978363	us	Time Out Amsterdam (Time Out Amsterdam Guide)	Time Out Amsterdam (Time Out Amsterdam Guide)				Paperback		Guidebooks/ Amsterdam/ Time Out Travel	$19.95	$0.99		3.5	Europe's most infamous city remains one of its most popular, and not without good reason: between its world-class art museums, its eminent canals that are perfect for wandering, and its coffee shops that don't exactly specialize in coffee, its variety is glorious indeed. However, with one of Europe's more forward-thinking cultural scenes and striking new architectural developments in IJburg and the Bijlmermeer, there's much more here to enjoy than the clichés; written, researched and edited entirely by locals, the Time Out Amsterdam guide tells travelers all about it. Highlights include Amsterdam after dark - the best restaurants, bars, and nightclubs in the city; an unmatched section on the city's cultural scene including galleries, performance art, classical music, and theater; and trips beyond Amsterdam to the flower auction in Aalsmeer, the cheese market at Gouda, and the windmills of Alblasserdam.		Time Out Publishing	10-07-2005		18-02-2007																	320										
+book							9780865470804	0865470804	us	Taking the Path of Zen (Taking the Path of Zen Ppr)	Taking the Path of Zen (Taking the Path of Zen Ppr)				Paperback		Zen	$12.00	$4.40		4	There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both guides and inspires. In Taking the Path of Zen Robert Aitken presents the practice, lifestyle, rationale, and ideology of Zen Buddhism with remarkable clarity. / / The foundation of Zen is the practice of zazen, or mediation, and Aitken Roshi insists that everything flows from the center. He discusses correct breathing, posture, routine, teacher-student relations, and koan study, as well as common problems and milestones encountered in the process. Throughout the book the author returns to zazen, offering further advice and more advanced techniques. The orientation extends to various religious attitudes and includes detailed discussions of the Three Treasures and the Ten Precepts of Zen Buddhism./ Taking the Path of Zen will serve as orientation and guide for anyone who is drawn to the ways of Zen, from the simply curious to the serious Zen student. / 		North Point Press	01-01-1982		06-02-2007															Robert Aitken		150										
+book							9780963177513	0963177516	us	Bubishi: Martial Art Spirit	Bubishi: Martial Art Spirit				Paperback		Martial Arts	$34.95	$61.18		5	Bubishi-Martial Art Spirit is the secret karate text of the Okinawan Masters. Guarded for centuries, this mystical book has finally been completely translated into English. The BUBISHI was cherished by Miyagi Chojun, the founder of Goju Ryu, Funakoshi Gichin, founder of Shotokan and Mabuni Kenwa, founder of Shito Ryu karate. It includes Dim Mak (The Death Touch), pressure points, knockout and killing techniques , 48 essential self defense applications, Chinese cures for Martial arts injuries and much more!!!		Yamazato Pubns	12-02-1993		06-02-2007															George Alexander												
+book							9780142000281	0142000280	us	Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity	Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity				Paperback		Health & Stress/ Time Management/ Guides/ Labor & Industrial Relations/ Motivational/ Office Skills/ Creativity/ Self-Esteem/ Stress Management	$15.00	$7.01		4.5	With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow,""mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance./ Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24//7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)/ As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen's is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can't junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket"/ That's where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen's system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen's ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there's anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It's commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --Timothy Murphy/ 		Penguin (Non-Classics)	31-12-2002		03-02-2007															David Allen		267										
+book							0076092024163	0131422464	us	Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, Second Edition	Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, Second Edition				Hardcover		Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$54.99	$23.99		5			Prentice Hall Ptr	10-05-2003		07-02-2007			1												Deepak Alur/ Dan Malks/ John Crupi		650										
+book							9780471202820	0471202827	us	Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process	Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process				Paperback		Object-Oriented Design/ Software Development/ Quality Control/ Computers & Internet/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$34.99	$24.39		3.5	The first book to cover Agile Modeling, a new modeling technique created specifically for XP projects eXtreme Programming (XP) has created a buzz in the software development community-much like Design Patterns did several years ago. Although XP presents a methodology for faster software development, many developers find that XP does not allow for modeling time, which is critical to ensure that a project meets its proposed requirements. They have also found that standard modeling techniques that use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) often do not work with this methodology. In this innovative book, Software Development columnist Scott Ambler presents Agile Modeling (AM)-a technique that he created for modeling XP projects using pieces of the UML and Rational's Unified Process (RUP). Ambler clearly explains AM, and shows readers how to incorporate AM, UML, and RUP into their development projects with the help of numerous case studies integrated throughout the book./  • AM was created by the author for modeling XP projects-an element lacking in the original XP design/  • The XP community and its creator have embraced AM, which should give this book strong market acceptance/ Companion Web site at www.agilemodeling.com features updates, links to XP and AM resources, and ongoing case studies about agile modeling./ 		John Wiley & Sons	01-02-2001		07-02-2007															Scott W. Ambler/ Ron Jeffries		224										
+book							9780262012102	0262012103	us	A Semantic Web Primer (Cooperative Information Systems)	A Semantic Web Primer (Cooperative Information Systems)				Hardcover		Web Site Design/ Storage/ Internet	$42.00	$25.98		4.5	The development of the Semantic Web, with machine-readable content, has the potential to revolutionize the World Wide Web and its use. A Semantic Web Primer provides an introduction and guide to this emerging field, describing its key ideas, languages, and technologies. Suitable for use as a textbook or for self-study by professionals, it concentrates on undergraduate-level fundamental concepts and techniques that will enable readers to proceed with building applications on their own. It includes exercises, project descriptions, and annotated references to relevant online materials. A Semantic Web Primer is the only available book on the Semantic Web to include a systematic treatment of the different languages (XML, RDF, OWL, and rules) and technologies (explicit metadata, ontologies, and logic and inference) that are central to Semantic Web development. The book also examines such crucial related topics as ontology engineering and application scenarios./ / After an introductory chapter, topics covered in succeeding chapters include XML and related technologies that support semantic interoperability; RDF and RDF Schema, the standard data model for machine-processable semantics; and OWL, the W3C-approved standard for a Web ontology language more extensive than RDF Schema; rules, both monotonic and nonmonotonic, in the framework of the Semantic Web; selected application domains and how the Semantic Web would benefit them; the development of ontology-based systems; and current debates on key issues and predictions for the future.		The MIT Press	01-04-2004		07-02-2007															Grigoris Antoniou/ Frank van Harmelen		272										
+book							0076092016335	0130674826	us	A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming	A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming				Paperback		Software Development/ Software Engineering	$49.99	$4.38		4			Prentice Hall PTR	08-02-2002		08-02-2007															David Astels/ Granville Miller/ Miroslav Novak		384										
+book							9780961454739	0961454733	us	Art & Fear	Art & Fear				Paperback		Study & Teaching/ Criticism	$12.95	$7.25		4.5	"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially-statistically speaking-there aren't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius."
--from the Introduction/ Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is expeienced by artmakers themselves./ This is not your typical self-help book. This is a book written by artists, for artists -- it's about what it feels like when artists sit down at their easel or keyboard, in their studio or performance space, trying to do the work they need to do. First published in 1994, Art & Fear quickly became an underground classic. Word-of-mouth response alone-now enhanced by internet posting-has placed it among the best-selling books on artmaking and creativity nationally./ Art & Fear has attracted a remarkably diverse audience, ranging from beginning to accomplished artists in every medium, and including an exceptional concentration among students and teachers. The original Capra Press edition of Art & Fear sold 80,000 copies./ An excerpt:/ Today, more than it was however many years ago, art is hard because you have to keep after it so consistently. On so many different fronts. For so little external reward. Artists become veteran artists only by making peace not just with themselves, but with a huge range of issues. You have to find your work.../ 		Image Continuum Press	01-04-2001		03-02-2007															David Bayles/ Ted Orland		122										
+book							0785342616415	0201616416	us	Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change	Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change				Paperback		Software Development/ Software Engineering	$29.95	$2.98		4	Kent Beck's eXtreme Programming eXplained provides an intriguing high-level overview of the author's Extreme Programming (XP) software development methodology. Written for IS managers, project leaders, or programmers, this guide provides a glimpse at the principles behind XP and its potential advantages for small- to mid-size software development teams./ The book intends to describe what XP is, its guiding principles, and how it works. Simply written, the book avoids case studies and concrete details in demonstrating the efficacy of XP. Instead, it demonstrates how XP relies on simplicity, unit testing, programming in pairs, communal ownership of code, and customer input on software to motivate code improvement during the development process. As the author notes, these principles are not new, but when they're combined their synergy fosters a new and arguably better way to build and maintain software. Throughout the book, the author presents and explains these principles, such as "rapid feedback" and "play to win," which form the basis of XP./ Generally speaking, XP changes the way programmers work. The book is good at delineating new roles for programmers and managers who Beck calls "coaches." The most striking characteristic of XP is that programmers work in pairs, and that testing is an intrinsic part of the coding process. In a later section, the author even shows where XP works and where it doesn't and offers suggestions for migrating teams and organizations over to the XP process./ In the afterword, the author recounts the experiences that led him to develop and refine XP, an insightful section that should inspire any organization to adopt XP. This book serves as a useful introduction to the philosophy and practice of XP for the manager or programmer who wants a potentially better way to build software. --Richard Dragan/ Topics covered: Extreme Programming (XP) software methodology, principles, XP team roles, facilities design, testing, refactoring, the XP software lifecycle, and adopting XP./ 		Addison-Wesley Professional	05-10-1999		07-02-2007															Kent Beck		224										
+book							0785342146530	0321146530	us	Test Driven Development: By Example (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)	Test Driven Development: By Example (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)				Paperback		Software Development/ Testing/ Software Engineering/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$44.99	$28.75		4			Addison-Wesley Professional	08-11-2002		07-02-2007															Kent Beck		240										
+book							9780743245517	0743245512	us	A Tooth from the Tiger's Mouth: How to Treat Your Injuries with Powerful Healing Secrets of the Great Chinese Warrior (Fireside Books (Fireside))	A Tooth from the Tiger's Mouth: How to Treat Your Injuries with Powerful Healing Secrets of the Great Chinese Warrior (Fireside Books (Fireside))				Paperback		Healing/ Herbal Remedies/ Chinese Medicine	$14.00	$8.25		5	A renowned expert in Chinese sports medicine and martial arts reveals ancient Eastern secrets for healing common injuries, including sprains, bruises, deep cuts, and much more./ For centuries, Chinese martial arts masters have kept their highly prized remedies as carefully guarded secrets, calling such precious and powerful knowledge "a tooth from the tiger's mouth." Now, for the first time, these deeply effective methods are revealed to Westerners who want alternative ways to treat the acute and chronic injuries experienced by any active person./ While many books outline the popular teachings of traditional Chinese medicine, only this one offers step-by-step instructions for treating injuries. Expert practitioner and martial artist Tom Bisio explains the complete range of healing strategies and provides a Chinese first-aid kit to help the reader fully recover from every mishap: cuts, sprains, breaks, dislocations, bruises, muscle tears, tendonitis, and much more./ He teaches readers how to:/ /  • Examine and diagnose injuries/  • /  • Prepare and apply herbal formulas/  • /  • Assemble a portable kit for emergencies/  • /  • Fully recuperate with strengthening exercises and healing dietary advice/ Comprehensive and easy to follow, with drawings to illustrate both the treatment strategies and the strengthening exercises, this unique guidebook will give readers complete access to the powerful healing secrets of the great Chinese warriors./ 		Fireside	05-10-2004		06-02-2007															Tom Bisio		384										
+book							9781932394696	1932394699	us	Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers	Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers				Paperback/ Illustrated		Web Site Design/ Object-Oriented Design/ Transportation & Highway	$44.95	$24.50		4	-The word is out: with Ruby on Rails you can build powerful Web applications easily and quickly! And just like the Rails framework itself, Rails applications are Ruby programs. That means you can't tap into the full power of Rails unless you master the Ruby language./ Ruby for Rails, written by Ruby expert David Black (with a forward by David Heinemeier Hansson), helps Rails developers achieve Ruby mastery. Each chapter deepens your Ruby knowledge and shows you how it connects to Rails. You'll gain confidence working with objects and classes and learn how to leverage Ruby's elegant, expressive syntax for Rails application power. And you'll become a better Rails developer through a deep understanding of the design of Rails itself and how to take advantage of it./ Newcomers to Ruby will find a Rails-oriented Ruby introduction that's easy to read and that includes dynamic programming techniques, an exploration of Ruby objects, classes, and data structures, and many neat examples of Ruby and Rails code in action. Ruby for Rails: the Ruby guide for Rails developers!/ What's Inside/ Classes, modules, and objects/ Collection handling and filtering/ String and regular expression manipulation/ Exploration of the Rails source code/ Ruby dynamics/ Many more programming concepts and techniques!/ 		Manning Publications	11-05-2006		07-02-2007															David Black		532										
+book							0021898130853	0020130856	us	The Elements of Technical Writing (Elements of Series)	The Elements of Technical Writing (Elements of Series)				Paperback		Writing Skills/ General & Reference/ Technical	$9.95	$4.49		3.5			Longman	19-12-2000		11-02-2007															Gary Blake/ Robert W. Bly		192										
+book							0785342310054	0201310058	us	Effective Java Programming Language Guide	Effective Java Programming Language Guide				Paperback		Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$49.99	$29.95		5	Written for the working Java developer, Joshua Bloch's Effective Java Programming Language Guide provides a truly useful set of over 50 best practices and tips for writing better Java code. With plenty of advice from an indisputable expert in the field, this title is sure to be an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to get more out of their code./ As a veteran developer at Sun, the author shares his considerable insight into the design choices made over the years in Sun's own Java libraries (which the author acknowledges haven't always been perfect). Based on his experience working with Sun's best minds, the author provides a compilation of 57 tips for better Java code organized by category. Many of these ideas will let you write more robust classes that better cooperate with built-in Java APIs. Many of the tips make use of software patterns and demonstrate an up-to-the-minute sense of what works best in today's design. Each tip is clearly introduced and explained with code snippets used to demonstrate each programming principle./ Early sections on creating and destroying objects show you ways to make better use of resources, including how to avoid duplicate objects. Next comes an absolutely indispensable guide to implementing "required" methods for custom classes. This material will help you write new classes that cooperate with old ones (with advice on implementing essential requirements like the equals() and hashCode() methods)./ The author has a lot to say about class design, whether using inheritance or composition. Tips on designing methods show you how to create understandable, maintainable, and robust classes that can be easily reused by others on your team. Sections on mapping C code (like structures, unions, and enumerated types) onto Java will help C programmers bring their existing skills to Sun's new language. Later sections delve into some general programming tips, like using exceptions effectively. The book closes with advice on using threads and synchronization techniques, plus some worthwhile advice on object serialization./ Whatever your level of Java knowledge, this title can make you a more effective programmer. Wisely written, yet never pompous or doctrinaire, the author has succeeded in packaging some really valuable nuggets of advice into a concise and very accessible guidebook that arguably deserves a place on most any developer's bookshelf. --Richard Dragan/ Topics covered:/  • Best practices and tips for Java/  • Creating and destroying objects (static factory methods, singletons, avoiding duplicate objects and finalizers)/  • Required methods for custom classes (overriding equals(), hashCode(), toString(), clone(), and compareTo() properly)/  • Hints for class and interface design (minimizing class and member accessibility, immutability, composition versus inheritance, interfaces versus abstract classes, preventing subclassing, static versus nonstatic classes)/  • C constructs in Java (structures, unions, enumerated types, and function pointers in Java)/  • Tips for designing methods (parameter validation, defensive copies, method signatures, method overloading, zero-length arrays, hints for Javadoc comments)/  • General programming advice (local variable scope, using Java API libraries, avoiding float and double for exact comparisons, when to avoid strings, string concatenation, interfaces and reflection, avoid native methods, optimizing hints, naming conventions)/  • Programming with exceptions (checked versus run-time exceptions, standard exceptions, documenting exceptions, failure-capture information, failure atomicity)/  • Threading and multitasking (synchronization and scheduling hints, thread safety, avoiding thread groups)/  • Serialization (when to implement Serializable, the readObject(), and readResolve() methods)/ 		Prentice Hall PTR	05-06-2001		07-02-2007															Joshua Bloch		252										
+book							9780596000523	0596000529	us	Creating Applications with Mozilla	Creating Applications with Mozilla				Paperback/ Illustrated		Web Browsers/ Web Programming	$39.95	$3.97		2.5	Mozilla is not just a browser. Mozilla is also a framework that allows developers to create cross-platform applications. This framework is made up of JavaScript, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and Mozilla's XUL (XML-based User-interface Language) as well as the Gecko rendering engine, XBL (eXtensible Binding Language), XPCOM (Mozilla's component model), and several other components. Creating Applications with Mozilla explains how applications are created with Mozilla and provides step-by-step information about how you can create your own programs using Mozilla's powerful cross-platform development framework. This book also shows examples of many different types of existing applications to demonstrate some of the possibilities of Mozilla application development. One of Mozilla's biggest advantages for a developer is that Mozilla-based applications are cross-platform, meaning programs work the same on Windows as they do on Linux or the Mac OS. Working through the book, you are introduced to the Mozilla development environment and after installing Mozilla, you quickly learn to create simple applications. After the initial satisfaction of developing your own portable applications, the book branches into topics on modular development and packaging your application. In order to build more complex applications, coverage of XUL, JavaScript, and CSS allow you to discover how to customize and build out your application shell. The second half of the book explores more advanced topics including UI enhancement, localization, and remote distribution. Mozilla 1.0 was released on June 5th, 2002, after more than four years of development as an open source project. This book has been written so that all of the information and examples will work with this release and any of the 1.0.x maintenance releases. In addition to Netscape's Mozilla-based browsers (Netscape 6.x and 7.x), the Mozilla framework has been used to create other browsers such as Galeon and Chimera, and chat clients such as ChatZilla and JabberZilla. Developers have also used Mozilla to create games, development tools, browser enhancements, as well as all sorts of other types of applications.		O'Reilly Media	09-02-2002		07-02-2007															David Boswell/ Brian King/ Ian Oeschger/ Pete Collins/ Eric Murphy		480										
+book							0031869008357	1558538356	us	Life's Little Instruction Book 511 Suggestions, Observations, And Reminders On How To Live A Happy And Rewarding Life	Life's Little Instruction Book 511 Suggestions, Observations, And Reminders On How To Live A Happy And Rewarding Life				Paperback		Ethics & Morality/ New Age/ Gifts/ Collections & Readers/ Spiritual	$6.99	$1.70		5	H. Jackson Brown, Jr. originally wrote Life's Little Instruction Book™ as a gift for his son who was leaving home to begin his freshman year in college. Brown says, "I read years ago that it was not the responsibility of parents to pave the road for their children but to provide a road map, and I wanted to provide him with what I had learned about living a happy and rewarding life."Life's Little Instruction Book™ is a guidebook that gently points the way to happiness and fulfillment. The observations are direct, simple, and as practical as an umbrella./ "But it's not just for young people," says Brown. "Most of us already know how to live a successful and purposeful life. We know we should be more understanding and thoughtful, more responsible, courageous and appreciative. It's just that we sometimes need reminding."Life's Little Instruction Book™ is that reminder, as well as the perfect gift for a relative or a friend who needs encouragement at any time of the year./  • Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day./  • Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference./  • Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures./  • Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks softly./  • Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have./  • Be kinder than necessary./  • Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know./  • Commit yourself to constant self-improvement./  • Don't major in minor things./  • Never cut what can be untied./ Since its debut in 1991, Life's Little Instruction Book™ has revolutionized the publishing industry. This little plaid book, which has been embraced the world over, has sold more than nine million copies, spent more than two years atop the New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into 33 languages. Though originally written as a gift from a father to a son, its simple message has been enjoyed by men and women of all ages around the world./ 		Rutledge Hill Press	29-09-2000		08-02-2007															H. Jackson Brown												
+book							0037038174434	1580174434	us	The Qigong Year	The Qigong Year				Hardcover		Meditation/ Mental & Spiritual Healing/ Chinese Medicine/ Energy Healing/ Tai Chi & Qi Gong	$12.95	$0.98		3	Closely related to the popular Chinese martial art Tai Chi, Qigong (pronounced "chee gong") is an ancient self-healing art that combines movement and meditation in holistic workouts that simultaneously develop body and spirit, promoting overall health and vitality./ Practiced by millions of Chinese for thousands of years, Qigong is now gaining popularity throughout the world. The program of exercises, movements, breathing techniques, and visualizations in The Qigong Year is specially designed to mirror the flow of the seasons. The exercises are illustrated with instructive line drawings, and the book features elegant duotones and patterned art accented with gold metallic ink./ Combining vigorous and gentle movement, Qigong exercises help strengthen the body, improve posture, align the spine, and relax shoulder and neck muscles. Three variations of each exercise - seated, standing, and advanced - are described, enabling people of all ages and abilities to easily practice and enjoy the benefits of Qigong./ Qigong meditation can help stabilize moods - reducing anger, anxiety, and depression - and improve outlook and self-confidence, making it easier to cope with life's challenges. The powerful affirmation technique, based on repeating positive statements that relate to personal problems or desires, can be practiced anywhere - while driving to work, taking a shower, or doing housework. Includes examples of effective affirmations, as well as guidelines for generating personalized ones to target individual health, work, and relationship challenges./ / 		Storey Publishing, LLC	15-05-2002		06-02-2007															Michael Bruney		256										
+book							9780385494717	0385494718	us	The Hidden Connections: Integrating The Biological, Cognitive, And Social Dimensions Of Life Into A Science Of Sustainability	The Hidden Connections: Integrating The Biological, Cognitive, And Social Dimensions Of Life Into A Science Of Sustainability				Hardcover		Modern/ History	$24.95	$2.00		4.5	The author of the bestselling The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life explores the profound social implications of emerging scientific principles and provides an innovative framework for using them to understand and solve some of the most important issues of our time./ / For most of history, scientific investigation was based on linear thinking. But the 1980's brought a revolutionary change. With the advent of improved computer power, scientists could apply complexity theory--nonlinear thinking--to scientific processes far more easily than ever before. Physicist Fritjof Capra was at the forefront of the revolution, and in The Web of Life he extended its scope by showing the impact of complexity theory on living organisms. In The Hidden Connections he breaks through another frontier, this time applying the principles of complexity theory to an analysis of the broad sphere of all human interactions./ / Capra posits that in order to sustain life in the future, the principles underlying our social institutions must be consistent with the organization that nature has evolved to sustain the "web of life." In a lucid and convincing argument, Capra explains how the theoretical ideas of science can be applied to the practical concerns of our time. Covering every aspect of human nature and society, he discusses such vital matters as the management of human organizations, the challenges and dangers of economic globalization, and the nature and the problems of biotechnology. He concludes with an authoritative, often provocative plan for designing ecologically sustainable communities and technologies as alternatives to the current economic globalization./ / A brilliant, incisive examination of the relationship between science and our social systems, The Hidden Connections will spark enormous debate in the scientific community and inspire us to think about the future of humanity in a new way.		Doubleday	20-08-2002		11-02-2007															Fritjof Capra		320										
+book							9781570625190	1570625190	us	The Tao of Physics	The Tao of Physics				Paperback		Taoism	$16.95	$7.95		4	First published in 1975, The Tao of Physics rode the wave of fascination in exotic East Asian philosophies. Decades later, it still stands up to scrutiny, explicating not only Eastern philosophies but also how modern physics forces us into conceptions that have remarkable parallels. Covering over 3,000 years of widely divergent traditions across Asia, Capra can't help but blur lines in his generalizations. But the big picture is enough to see the value in them of experiential knowledge, the limits of objectivity, the absence of foundational matter, the interrelation of all things and events, and the fact that process is primary, not things. Capra finds the same notions in modern physics. Those approaching Eastern thought from a background of Western science will find reliable introductions here to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism and learn how commonalities among these systems of thought can offer a sort of philosophical underpinning for modern science. And those approaching modern physics from a background in Eastern mysticism will find precise yet comprehensible descriptions of a Western science that may reinvigorate a hope in the positive potential of scientific knowledge. Whatever your background, The Tao of Physics is a brilliant essay on the meeting of East and West, and on the invaluable possibilities that such a union promises. --Brian Bruya		Shambhala	04-01-2000		11-02-2007															Fritjof Capra		366										
+book							9780553346107	0553346105	us	Uncommon Wisdom	Uncommon Wisdom				Paperback		Modern	$27.00	$0.20		5			Bantam	01-01-1989		11-02-2007															Fritjof Capra		334										
+book							9780385476751	0385476752	us	The Web of Life	The Web of Life				Hardcover		Chaos & Systems/ Acoustics & Sound/ System Theory/ Ecology	$23.95	$5.49		4	The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the frontiers of scientific, social, and philosophical thought. In his international bestsellers The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, he juxtaposed physics and mysticism to define a new vision of reality. In The Web of Life, Capra takes yet another giant step, setting forth a new scientific language to describe interrelationships and interdependence of psychological, biological, physical, social, and cultural phenomena--the "web of life."/ / / / During the past twenty-five years, scientists have challenged conventional views of evolution and the organization of living systems and have developed new theories with revolutionary philosophical and social implications. Fritjof Capra has been at the forefront of this revolution. In The Web of Life, Capra offers a brilliant synthesis of such recent scientific breakthroughs as the theory of complexity, Gaia theory, chaos theory, and other explanations of the properties of organisms, social systems, and ecosystems. Capra's surprising findings stand in stark contrast to accepted paradigms of mechanism and Darwinism and provide an extraordinary new foundation for ecological policies that will allow us to build and sustain communities without diminishing the opportunities for future generations./ / / / Now available in paperback for the first time, The Web of Life is cutting-edge science writing in the tradition of James Gleick's Chaos, Gregory Bateson's Mind and Matter, and Ilya Prigogine's Order Out of Chaos./ / / From the Trade Paperback edition.		DoubleDay	01-09-1996		11-02-2007															Fritjof Capra		368										
+book							9780880222785	0880222786	us	DBase III Plus Advanced Programming	DBase III Plus Advanced Programming				Paperback		dBASE	$22.95	$1.85					Que Corporation,U.S.	02-02-1987		07-02-2007															Joseph-David Carrabis		300										
+book							9780810807303	0810807300	us	Building library collections,	Building library collections,				Unknown Binding		Library Management		$0.99					Scarecrow Press	08-02-1974		08-02-2007															Mary Duncan Carter		415										
+book							9780894070174	0894070177	us	The Book of Internal Exercises	The Book of Internal Exercises				Hardcover			$12.95	$0.01		4			Strawberry Hill Pr	12-02-1978		11-02-2007															Stephen Thomas Chang		138										
+book							9781416915546	1416915540	us	The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint	The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint				Hardcover		Entertainers/ Criminals	$23.95	$9.00		4.5	/ Beloved stoner comedian TOMMY CHONG is now older, wiser, and officially an EX-CON./ / / On the morning of February 24, 2003, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration launched a sting called Operation Pipe Dreams and forced themselves through the door of Tommy's California home, with automatic weapons drawn. As a result of the raid on his home; the simultaneous ransacking of his son's company, Chong Glass; and the Bush administration's determination to make an example out of the "Pope of Pot;" he was sentenced to nine months in prison because his company shipped bongs to a head shop in Pennsylvania that was a front for the DEA./ / / Well . . . now it's Tommy Chong's turn to fight back and tell his side of the story./ / / Beginning with Tommy's experiences growing up in Canada in the forties and fifties as a mixed-race kid and going on to become a comedy legend, The I Chong is at once a memoir, a spiritual exploration of his time in prison, and a political indictment of the eroding civil liberties in post-9//11 American society. He tells the unbelievable story of his trip down the rabbit hole of America's war on drugs and of his experiences in the federal prison system, and he offers up timely observations on combating the conservative political forces at work in this country. Introspective, inspiring, and incendiary, The I Chong is a unique chronicle of one man's life and how his humorous and spiritual point of view saved him during his wrongful incarceration at the hands of an administration without boundaries./ 		Simon Spotlight Entertainment	08-08-2006		10-02-2007															Tommy Chong		224										
+book							9780974514031	0974514039	us	Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Apps	Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Apps				Paperback/ Illustrated		Software Development/ Software Project Management	$29.95	$15.65		4.5	Forget wizards, you need a slave--someone to do your repetitive, tedious and boring tasks, without complaint and without pay, so you'll have more time to design and write exciting code. Indeed, that's what computers are for. You can enlist your own computer to automate all of your project's repetitive tasks, ranging from individual builds and running unit tests through to full product release, customer deployment, and monitoring the system. Many teams try to do these tasks by hand. That's usually a really bad idea: people just aren't as good at repetitive tasks as machines. You run the risk of doing it differently the one time it matters, on one machine but not another, or doing it just plain wrong. But the computer can do these tasks for you the same way, time after time, without bothering you. You can transform these labor-intensive, boring and potentially risky chores into automatic, background processes that just work. In this eagerly anticipated book, you'll find a variety of popular, open-source tools to help automate your project. With this book, you will learn:/  • How to make your build processes accurate, reliable, fast, and easy./  • How to build complex systems at the touch of a button./  • How to build, test, and release software automatically, with no human intervention./  • Technologies and tools available for automation: which to use and when./  • Tricks and tips from the masters (do you know how to have your cell phone tell you that your build just failed?)/ You'll find easy-to-implement recipes to automate your Java project, using the same popular style as the rest of our Jolt Productivity Award-winning Starter Kit books. Armed with plenty of examples and concrete, pragmatic advice, you'll find it's easy to get started and reap the benefits of modern software development. You can begin to enjoy pragmatic, automatic, unattended software production that's reliable and accurate every time.		The Pragmatic Programmers	08-02-2004		07-02-2007															Mike Clark		176										
+book							9780912381039	0912381035	us	Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements	Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements				Paperback		Acupuncture & Acupressure/ Massage/ Pharmacology/ Chinese Medicine	$16.00	$11.29		4			Traditional Acupuncture Institute, Incorporat	10-02-1994		11-02-2007															Dianne M. Connelly		192										
+book							9780262032933	0262032937	us	Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition	Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition				Hardcover		Beginner's Guides/ Information Systems/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$82.00	$56.99		4	Aimed at any serious programmer or computer science student, the new second edition of Introduction to Algorithms builds on the tradition of the original with a truly magisterial guide to the world of algorithms. Clearly presented, mathematically rigorous, and yet approachable even for the math-averse, this title sets a high standard for a textbook and reference to the best algorithms for solving a wide range of computing problems./ With sample problems and mathematical proofs demonstrating the correctness of each algorithm, this book is ideal as a textbook for classroom study, but its reach doesn't end there. The authors do a fine job of explaining each algorithm. (Reference sections on basic mathematical notation will help readers bridge the gap, but it will help to have some math background to appreciate the full achievement of this handsome hardcover volume.) Every algorithm is presented in pseudo-code, which can be implemented in any computer language, including C//C++ and Java. This ecumenical approach is one of the book's strengths. When it comes to sorting and common data structures, from basic linked lists to trees (including binary trees, red-black, and B-trees), this title really shines, with clear diagrams that show algorithms in operation. Even if you just glance over the mathematical notation here, you can definitely benefit from this text in other ways./ The book moves forward with more advanced algorithms that implement strategies for solving more complicated problems (including dynamic programming techniques, greedy algorithms, and amortized analysis). Algorithms for graphing problems (used in such real-world business problems as optimizing flight schedules or flow through pipelines) come next. In each case, the authors provide the best from current research in each topic, along with sample solutions./ This text closes with a grab bag of useful algorithms including matrix operations and linear programming, evaluating polynomials, and the well-known Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) (useful in signal processing and engineering). Final sections on "NP-complete" problems, like the well-known traveling salesman problem, show off that while not all problems have a demonstrably final and best answer, algorithms that generate acceptable approximate solutions can still be used to generate useful, real-world answers./ Throughout this text, the authors anchor their discussion of algorithms with current examples drawn from molecular biology (like the Human Genome Project), business, and engineering. Each section ends with short discussions of related historical material, often discussing original research in each area of algorithms. On the whole, they argue successfully that algorithms are a "technology" just like hardware and software that can be used to write better software that does more, with better performance. Along with classic books on algorithms (like Donald Knuth's three-volume set, The Art of Computer Programming), this title sets a new standard for compiling the best research in algorithms. For any experienced developer, regardless of their chosen language, this text deserves a close look for extending the range and performance of real-world software. --Richard Dragan/ Topics covered: Overview of algorithms (including algorithms as a technology); designing and analyzing algorithms; asymptotic notation; recurrences and recursion; probabilistic analysis and randomized algorithms; heapsort algorithms; priority queues; quicksort algorithms; linear time sorting (including radix and bucket sort); medians and order statistics (including minimum and maximum); introduction to data structures (stacks, queues, linked lists, and rooted trees); hash tables (including hash functions); binary search trees; red-black trees; augmenting data structures for custom applications; dynamic programming explained (including assembly-line scheduling, matrix-chain multiplication, and optimal binary search trees); greedy algorithms (including Huffman codes and task-scheduling problems); amortized analysis (the accounting and potential methods); advanced data structures (including B-trees, binomial and Fibonacci heaps, representing disjoint sets in data structures); graph algorithms (representing graphs, minimum spanning trees, single-source shortest paths, all-pairs shortest paths, and maximum flow algorithms); sorting networks; matrix operations; linear programming (standard and slack forms); polynomials and the Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT); number theoretic algorithms (including greatest common divisor, modular arithmetic, the Chinese remainder theorem, RSA public-key encryption, primality testing, integer factorization); string matching; computational geometry (including finding the convex hull); NP-completeness (including sample real-world NP-complete problems and their insolvability); approximation algorithms for NP-complete problems (including the traveling salesman problem); reference sections for summations and other mathematical notation, sets, relations, functions, graphs and trees, as well as counting and probability backgrounder (plus geometric and binomial distributions)./ 		The MIT Press	01-09-2001		07-02-2007															Thomas H. Cormen/ Charles E. Leiserson/ Ronald L. Rivest/ Clifford Stein		1184										
+book							9781932394610	1932394613	us	Ajax in Action	Ajax in Action				Paperback/ Illustrated		HTML - General/ Internet/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$44.95	$17.97		4	Val's Blog "A tremendously useful field guide specifically written for developers down in the trenches...waiting for the killer solution..."/ Web users are getting tired of the traditional web experience. They get frustrated losing their scroll position; they get annoyed waiting for refresh; they struggle to reorient themselves on every new page. And the list goes on. With asynchronous JavaScript and XML, known as "Ajax," you can give them a better experience. Once users have experienced an Ajax interface, they hate to go back. Ajax is new way of thinking that can result in a flowing and intuitive interaction with the user./ Ajax in Action helps you implement that thinking--it explains how to distribute the application between the client and the server (hint: use a "nested MVC" design) while retaining the integrity of the system. You will learn how to ensure your app is flexible and maintainable, and how good, structured design can help avoid problems like browser incompatibilities. Along the way it helps you unlearn many old coding habits. Above all, it opens your mind to the many advantages gained by placing much of the processing in the browser. If you are a web developer who has prior experience with web technologies, this book is for you./ 		Manning Publications	01-10-2005		07-02-2007															Dave Crane/ Eric Pascarello/ Darren James		650										
+book							9780802065193	0802065198	us	Design with Type	Design with Type				Paperback		Typography/ Manufacturing/ General & Reference/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$23.95	$20.00		5	Design with Type takes the reader through a study of typography that starts with the individual letter and proceeds through the word, the line, and the mass of text. The contrasts possible with type are treated in detail, along with their applications to the typography ofbooks, advertising, magazines, and information data. The various contending schools oftypography are discussed, copiously illustrated with the author's selection of over 150 examples of imaginative typography from many parts ot the world./ Design with Type differs from all other books on typography in that it discusses type as a design material as well as a means of communication: the premise is that if type is understood in terms of design, the user of type will be better able to work with it to achieve maximum legibility and effectiveness, as well as aesthetic pleasure. Everyone who uses type, everyone who enjoys the appearance of the printed word, will find Design with Type informative and fascinating. It provides, too, an outstanding example of the effectiveness of imaginative and tasteful typographic design./ 		University of Toronto Press	14-06-2000		11-02-2007															Carl Dair		162										
+book							0676251833904	0804833907	us	Making Out in Chinese (Making Out (Tuttle))	Making Out in Chinese (Making Out (Tuttle))				Paperback		Chinese/ Phrasebooks - General	$7.95	$4.00		3.5			Tuttle Publishing	11-02-2003		11-02-2007															Ray Daniels		96										
+book							9780062502230	0062502239	us	365 Tao: Daily Meditations	365 Tao: Daily Meditations				Paperback		Taoism/ New Age/ Prayerbooks/ Meditations	$15.95	$2.99		5	Umbrella, light, landscape, sky— 
There is no language of the holy. 
The sacred lies in the ordinary./ This treasury of life-enhancing daily readings turns a wise Taoist light on every facet of life. Each daily entry with a one-word title and its Chinese character in elegant calligraphy./ A brief, poetic aphorism provides the theme, followed by a clear, insightful mediation on the day's Taoist principle./ 		HarperSanFrancisco	17-07-1992		08-02-2007															Ming-Dao Deng		400										
+book							9780460874113	046087411X	us	A Discourse on Method (Everyman's Library (Paper))	A Discourse on Method (Everyman's Library (Paper))				Paperback		Classics/ History, 17th & 18th Century/ Modern/ Methodology & Statistics/ Applied/ Geometry & Topology/ Meteorology/ Experiments, Instruments & Measurement	$7.95	$3.95		4.5	By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy. He deduced that human beings consist of minds and bodies; that these are totally distinct "substances"; that God exists and that He ensures we can trust the evidence of our senses. Ushering in the "scientific revolution" of Galileo and Newton, Descartes' ideas swept aside ancient and medieval traditions of philosophical methods and investigation.		Tuttle Publishing			11-02-2007															Rene Descartes		300										
+book							9780140286786	0140286780	us	Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence	Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence				Paperback		Public Finance/ Financial Planning/ Money Management/ Contemporary	$15.00	$5.00		4.5	There's a big difference between "making a living" and making a life. Do you spend more than you earn? Does making a living feel more like making a dying? Do you dislike your job but can't afford to leave it? Is money fragmenting your time, your relationships with family and friends? If so, Your Money or Your Life is for you./ From this inspiring book, learn how to/  • get out of debt and develop savings/  • reorder material priorities and live well for less/  • resolve inner conflicts between values and lifestyles/  • convert problems into opportunities to learn new skills/  • attain a wholeness of livelihood and lifestyle/  • save the planet while saving money/  • and much more/ 		Penguin (Non-Classics)	01-09-1999		11-02-2007															Joe Dominguez/ Vicki Robin		400										
+book							9780262541480	0262541483	us	The Scheme Programming Language, 3rd Edition	The Scheme Programming Language, 3rd Edition				Paperback		Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$37.00	$22.98		5	This thoroughly updated edition of The Scheme Programming Language provides an introduction to Scheme and a definitive reference for standard Scheme, presented in a clear and concise manner. Written for professionals and students with some prior programming experience, it begins by leading the programmer gently through the basics of Scheme and continues with an introduction to some of the more advanced features of the language. Many exercises are presented to help reinforce the lessons learned, and answers to the exercises are given in a new appendix. Most of the remaining chapters are dedicated to the reference material, which describes in detail the standard features of Scheme included in the Revised Report on Scheme and the ANSI//IEEE standard for Scheme./ / Numerous examples are presented throughout the introductory and reference portions of the text, and a unique set of extended example programs and applications, with additional exercises, are presented in the final chapter. Reinforcing the book's utility as a reference text are appendixes that present the formal syntax of Scheme, a summary of standard forms and procedures, and a bibliography of Scheme resources. The Scheme Programming Language stands alone as an introduction to and essential reference for Scheme programmers. It is also useful as a supplementary text for any course that uses Scheme./ / The Scheme Programming Language is illustrated by artist Jean-Pierre Hebert, who writes Scheme programs to extend his ability to create sophisticated works of digital art.		The MIT Press	01-10-2003		08-02-2007															R. Kent Dybvig		329										
+book							9780874775136	0874775132	us	Drawing on the right side of the Brain	Drawing on the right side of the Brain				Paperback		Reference/ Study & Teaching/ Creativity/ Drawing	$15.95	$1.08		4.5			Tarcher	01-05-1989		11-02-2007															Betty Edwards		254										
+book							9780912111193	0912111194	us	Grasping the Wind (Paradigm Title)	Grasping the Wind (Paradigm Title)				Paperback		Acupuncture & Acupressure/ Reference/ Pharmacology	$28.95	$19.75		4	Point names, the traditional means for identifying acupoints, have meanings that are, like the wind, hard to grasp. Yet enfolded in these often poetic words is a utility that involves the complex associations derived from the evolution of the Chinese language and the vast array of therapeutic nalogies found in traditional medical works./ In discussing the point names, the authors examine the meaning, context, and significance of each acupuncture point to promote understanding of the point's use in acupuncture practice. Guidelines for understanding the nature and structure of the Chinese language are offered, along with discussions of the Chinese rationale for naming points and point groupings. The reasoning for selecting the English names is offered so that readers may adapt the names for their own use. Each of the 363 points covered is listed according to the system currently used in China. Descriptions include the name in Chinese characters, in Pinyin, and in English. The classical location according to major Chinese texts, the associated point groupings, an explanation of point functions, and classical energetic associations are also noted. Further detail is provided by inclusion of channel relationships, five-phase relationships, and qi functions. Additional notes detail linguistic and practical considerations that have accrued to the point over time. Alternate names for the point are given, again in Chinese, Pinyin, and English. Indexes provide stroke order listings, point group names, and point lists for each character. A glossary of all the characters used in point names provides a definition for each Chinese character. This book provides much valuable theoretical and therapeutic information./ 		Paradigm Publications (MA)	06-02-1989		11-02-2007															Andrew Ellis/ Nigel Wiseman/ Ken Boss		462										
+book							9780064539142	0064539148	us	Anatomy Coloring Book	Anatomy Coloring Book				Paperback		Anatomy/ Fundamentals & Skills	$15.00	$0.01		4.5	This unique learning tool teaches anatomical concepts and illustrates all the structures and systems of the body through coloring exercises, an effective teaching device that also aids in the retention of the material. 163 detailed illustrations are organized according to body system and a color-key system links terminology to illustrations, reinforcing learning and impressing upon students the visual details of anatomy.		Harpercollins Publisher	01-02-1997		06-02-2007															Lawrence Elson		142										
+book							0076092021193	0321136497	us	Servlets and JSP: The J2EE Web Tier	Servlets and JSP: The J2EE Web Tier				Paperback		Web Site Design/ Internet/ Servlets/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$54.99	$11.99		3.5			Addison-Wesley Professional	29-08-2003		07-02-2007															Jayson Falkner/ Kevin R Jones		784										
+book							9781932394443	1932394443	us	IntelliJ IDEA in Action (In Action series)	IntelliJ IDEA in Action (In Action series)				Paperback/ Illustrated		Software Development	$44.95	$22.29		4.5	This book will help developers dig a little deeper into IDEA and embrace its streamlining features which allow for more time to be spent on project design rather than code management. Without some educational investment, however, IDEA can be just another editor. That then, is the purpose of this book. To not only get you up and running quickly, but to teach you how to use IDEA's powerful software development tools to their fullest advantage. Important product features, including the debugger, source code control, and the many code generation tools, are carefully explained and accompanied by tips and tricks that will leave even experienced IDEA users with "Eureka!" moments of informed programming. Coders just graduating from NOTEPAD and Java IDE veterans alike will profit from the powerful and timesaving expertise provided in this essential programmer's resource./ IDEA is a next-generation IDE for Java, an Integrated Development Environment. As the term IDE implies, IDEA integrates or combines all of the tools needed to develop Java software into a single application and interface. In other words, IDEA is a tool that helps develop Java applications more quickly, easily, and intelligently. IDEA can help with every phase of a project, from design and development to testing and deployment. This book is based on the IntelliJ IDEA Java development environment software from JetBrains, version 5.0./ 		Manning Publications	01-03-2006		07-02-2007															Duane K. Fields/ Stephen Saunders/ Eugene Belayev		450										
+book							0636920924876	1565924878	us	Java in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference (Java Series)	Java in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference (Java Series) (3rd Edition)			3rd	Paperback		Reference/ Networking/ Object-Oriented Design/ Nutshell/ Java	$29.95	$0.01		4	The 3rd edition of the well-known reference, Java in a Nutshell, covers the essential APIs of Java 1.2, including networking, security, input and output, and basic language and utility classes. Due to the size of the Java 1.2 API, graphics and graphical user interface classes are now examined in a volume called Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, and server-side and enterprise programming are detailed in Java Enterprise in a Nutshell./ Though primarily a reference, the book starts off with a thorough, fast-paced introduction to Java, exploring all the key topics, including syntax, object-oriented programming, security, beans, and tools. These discussions are brief and very information-dense, and if you are buying this book to learn the language, you will probably be overwhelmed by the speed of this initiation./ This book intends to document quite a bit of Java, and it easily succeeds with broad coverage of Java programming in Part I, and API cataloging broken down by package in Part II. For example, discussions in Part I explain Types, Reflection, and Dynamic Loading. The handling of these topics takes a little over a page, but the book gives a useful overview with code examples that clearly illustrate the points made. It is one of the clearest and most concise treatments of these three topics available./ The chapters in Part II include an introduction, diagrams, and sections for each class in the package. The sections for each class can be very informative, as in the discussion of the Socket class in the java.net chapter, which includes how to instantiate a Socket object, getting I//O streams from the object you instantiated, and how to alter the behavior of sockets. This discussion, like most in this book, is brief, clear, and to the point./ If you are looking for a Java reference, this is a solid volume that will provide lasting value. --John Keogh/ Topics covered: Part I, "Introducing Java," provides broad coverage of Java programming topics, including data types, syntax, classes, and objects; Java file structure; inner classes; interfaces; packages; creating and initializing objects; destroying and finalizing objects; input//output; cryptography; networking; security; threads; JavaBeans; JavaDoc; and tools that come with Java 1.2 SDK./ Part II, "The Java API Quick Reference," includes chapters on the following Java packages: java.beans, java.beans.beancontext, java.io, java.lang, java.lang.ref, java.lang.reflect, java.math, java.net, java.security, java.security.acl, java.security.cert, java.security.interfaces, java.security.spec, java.text, java.util, java.util.jar, java.util.zip, javax.crypto, javax.crypto.interfaces, javax.crypto.spec, and a final chapter, which provides an index for classes, methods, and fields./ 		O'Reilly	11-02-1999		07-02-2007															David Flanagan		666										
+book							9780596000486	0596000480	us	JavaScript: The Definitive Guide	JavaScript: The Definitive Guide				Paperback/ Illustrated		Web Site Design/ JavaScript/ Object-Oriented Design/ HTML - General/ Utilities/ Web Programming/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$44.95	$7.98		4.5	Since the earliest days of Internet scripting, Web developers have considered JavaScript: The Definitive Guide an essential resource. David Flanagan's approach, which combines tutorials and examples with easy-to-use syntax guides and object references, suits the typical programmer's requirements nicely. The brand-new fourth edition of Flanagan's "Rhino Book" includes coverage of JavaScript 1.5, JScript 5.5, ECMAScript 3, and the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Interestingly, the author has shifted away from specifying--as he did in earlier editions--what browsers support each bit of the language. Rather than say Netscape 3.0 supports the Image object while Internet Explorer 3.0 does not, he specifies that JavaScript 1.1 and JScript 3.0 support Image. More usefully, he specifies the contents of independent standards like ECMAScript, which encourages scripters to write applications for these standards and browser vendors to support them. As Flanagan says, JavaScript and its related subjects are very complex in their pure forms. It's impossible to keep track of the differences among half a dozen vendors' generally similar implementations. Nonetheless, a lot of examples make reference to specific browsers' capabilities./ Though he does not cover server-side APIs, Flanagan has chosen to separate coverage of core JavaScript (all the keywords, general syntax, and utility objects like Array) from coverage of client-side JavaScript (which includes objects, like History and Event, that have to do with Web browsers and users' interactions with them. This approach makes this book useful to people using JavaScript for applications other than Web pages. By the way, the other classic JavaScript text--Danny Goodman's JavaScript Bible--isn't as current as this book, but it's still a fantastic (and perhaps somewhat more novice-friendly) guide to the JavaScript language and its capabilities. --David Wall/ Topics covered: The JavaScript language (version 1.0 through version 1.5) and its relatives, JScript and ECMAScript, as well as the W3C DOM standards they're often used to manipulate. Tutorial sections show how to program in JavaScript, while reference sections summarize syntax and options while providing copious code examples./ 		O'Reilly Media	15-12-2001		07-02-2007															David Flanagan		900										
+book							9780596007386	0596007388	us	Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook	Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook				Paperback/ Illustrated		Perl/ Java	$29.95	$3.97		4.5	Java 5.0, code-named "Tiger", promises to be the most significant new version of Java since the introduction of the language. With over a hundred substantial changes to the core language, as well as numerous library and API additions, developers have a variety of new features, facilities, and techniques available. But with so many changes, where do you start? You could read through the lengthy, often boring language specification; you could wait for the latest 500 page tome on concepts and theory; you could even play around with the new JDK, hoping you figure things out--or you can get straight to work with Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook. This no-nonsense, down-and-dirty guide by bestselling Java authors Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan skips all the boring prose and lecture, and jumps right into Tiger. You'll have a handle on the important new features of the language by the end of the first chapter, and be neck-deep in code before you hit the halfway point. Using the task-oriented format of this new series, you'll get complete practical coverage of generics, learn how boxing and unboxing affects your type conversions, understand the power of varargs, learn how to write enumerated types and annotations, master Java's new formatting methods and the for//in loop, and even get a grip on concurrency in the JVM. Light on theory and long on practical application, Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook allows you to cut to the chase, getting straight to work with Tiger's new features. The new Developer's Notebooks series from O'Reilly covers important new tools for software developers. Emphasizing example over explanation and practice over theory, they focus on learning by doing--you'll get the goods straight from the masters, in an informal and code-intensive style that suits developers. If you've been curious about Tiger, but haven't known where to start, this no-fluff, lab-style guide is the solution.		O'Reilly Media	25-06-2004		07-02-2007															David Flanagan/ Brett McLaughlin		177										
+book							9780936185514	0936185511	us	Imperial Secrets of Health and Longevity	Imperial Secrets of Health and Longevity				Paperback		New Age/ History/ Tai Chi & Qi Gong	$12.95	$8.50		3.5	The 14 secrets of longevity of the Qing Dynasty Emperor, Qian Long, cover all aspects of living a long and healthy life. This book offers Qian Long's sage advice on the role of diet, exercise, relaxation, emotions, sex, and environment in achieving long life and good health. This traditional Chinese medical theory includes self-massage, stretching, and qi gong exercise as well as how to use Chinese tonic herbs.		Blue Poppy Press	03-02-1999		06-02-2007															Bob Flaws		113										
+book							9780936185521	093618552X	us	Statements of Fact in Traditional Chinese Medicine	Statements of Fact in Traditional Chinese Medicine				Paperback		Basic Science/ History	$15.95	$33.04		4.5	At last, what every tcm student has been looking for, a linguistically accurate, succinct list of the key statements of fact in tcm which, as a style of Chinese medicine, is largely a word game. However, to play the game, one needs to know the words. Hopefully, this book will help Western students gain both clarity and proficiency in the process and practice of doing tcm. When supplemented by a teacher, introductory grammar, and a dictionary, this book can quickly and efficiently help teach English language students and practitioners how to read medical Chinese and thus gain access to the vast library of Chinese medical literature.		Blue Poppy Press	01-01-1994		06-02-2007															Bob Flaws		107										
+book							9780936185927	0936185929	us	The Tao of Healthy Eating	The Tao of Healthy Eating				Paperback		Healthy/ Chinese Medicine	$15.95	$8.21		4	Chinese dietary therapy is one of the most important aspects of Chinese medicine. The Tao of Healthy Eating illuminates the theory and practice of Chinese dietary therapy with emphasis on the concerns and attitudes of Westerners. Commonsense metaphors explain basic Chinese medical theories and their application in preventive and remedial dietary therapy. It features a clear description of the Chinese medical understanding of digestion and all the practical implications if this for day-to-day diet. Issues of Western interest are discussed, such as raw versus cooked foods, high cholesterol, food allergies, and candidacies. It includes the Chinese medical descriptions of 200 Western food and similar information on vitamins, minerals, and amino acids.		Blue Poppy Press	01-01-1998		06-02-2007															Bob Flaws		128										
+book							9781932394184	1932394184	us	Java Reflection in Action (In Action series)	Java Reflection in Action (In Action series)				Paperback/ Illustrated			$44.95	$17.99		4.5	Explaining the Java Reflection API and providing techniques for using it effectively, this guide describes the capabilities that allow a program to examine and modify itself at runtime. The java.lang.reflect package and its uses are covered, including a detailed discussion of Java's dynamic proxy facility. Less obvious reflective capabilities, such as call stack introspection and the Java class loader, are addressed. In recognition of the limitations of Java Reflection, the various ways to use Reflection to generate code and surpass these limitations are detailed. A discussion of performance analysis techniques and a look ahead at what is new in JDK 1.5 is included./ 		Manning Publications	10-02-2004		07-02-2007															Ira R. Forman/ Nate Forman		300										
+book							9780977616602	0977616606	us	Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers)	Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers)				Paperback		Object-Oriented Design/ Internet	$32.95	$22.46		4.5	Rails is large, powerful, and new. How do you use it effectively? How do you harness the power? And, most important, how do you get high quality, real-world applications written?/ From the latest Ajax effects to time-saving automation tips for your development process, Rails Recipes will show you how the experts have already solved the problems you have./  • Use generators to automate repetitive coding tasks./  • Create sophisticated role-based authentication schemes./  • Add live search and live preview to your site./  • Run tests when anyone checks code in./  • How to create tagged data the right way./  • and many, many more.../ Owning Rails Recipes is like having the best Rails programmers sitting next to you while you code./ 		Pragmatic Bookshelf	01-06-2006		01-02-2007	3														Chad Fowler		332										
+book							0785342485677	0201485672	us	Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code	Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code				Hardcover		Object-Oriented Design/ Design Tools & Techniques/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$59.99	$39.99		4.5	Your class library works, but could it be better? Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code shows how refactoring can make object-oriented code simpler and easier to maintain. Today refactoring requires considerable design know-how, but once tools become available, all programmers should be able to improve their code using refactoring techniques./ Besides an introduction to refactoring, this handbook provides a catalog of dozens of tips for improving code. The best thing about Refactoring is its remarkably clear presentation, along with excellent nuts-and-bolts advice, from object expert Martin Fowler. The author is also an authority on software patterns and UML, and this experience helps make this a better book, one that should be immediately accessible to any intermediate or advanced object-oriented developer. (Just like patterns, each refactoring tip is presented with a simple name, a "motivation," and examples using Java and UML.)/ Early chapters stress the importance of testing in successful refactoring. (When you improve code, you have to test to verify that it still works.) After the discussion on how to detect the "smell" of bad code, readers get to the heart of the book, its catalog of over 70 "refactorings"--tips for better and simpler class design. Each tip is illustrated with "before" and "after" code, along with an explanation. Later chapters provide a quick look at refactoring research./ Like software patterns, refactoring may be an idea whose time has come. This groundbreaking title will surely help bring refactoring to the programming mainstream. With its clear advice on a hot new topic, Refactoring is sure to be essential reading for anyone who writes or maintains object-oriented software. --Richard Dragan/ Topics Covered: Refactoring, improving software code, redesign, design tips, patterns, unit testing, refactoring research, and tools./ 		Addison-Wesley Professional	28-06-1999		07-02-2007															Martin Fowler/ Kent Beck/ John Brant/ William Opdyke/ Don Roberts		464										
+book							0785342657838	020165783X	us	UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language	UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (2nd Edition)			2nd	Paperback		Object-Oriented Design/ Software Development/ UML	$34.99	$2.95		4	The second edition of Martin Fowler's bestselling UML Distilled provides updates to the Unified Modeling Language (UML) without changing its basic formula for success. It is still arguably the best resource for quick, no-nonsense explanations of using UML./ The major strength of UML Distilled is its short, concise presentation of the essentials of UML and where it fits within today's software development process. The book describes all the major UML diagram types, what they're for, and the basic notation involved in creating and deciphering them. These diagrams include use cases; class and interaction diagrams; collaborations; and state, activity, and physical diagrams. The examples are always clear, and the explanations cut to the fundamental design logic./ For the second edition, the material has been reworked for use cases and activity diagrams, plus there are numerous small tweaks throughout, including the latest UML v. 1.3 standard. An appendix even traces the evolution of UML versions./ Working developers often don't have time to keep up with new innovations in software engineering. This new edition lets you get acquainted with some of the best thinking about efficient object-oriented software design using UML in a convenient format that will be essential to anyone who designs software professionally. --Richard Dragan/ Topics covered: UML basics, analysis and design, outline development (software development process), inception, elaboration, managing risks, construction, transition, use case diagrams, class diagrams, interaction diagrams, collaborations, state diagrams, activity diagrams, physical diagrams, patterns, and refactoring basics./ 		Addison-Wesley Professional	25-08-1999		07-02-2007															Martin Fowler/ Kendall Scott		185										
+book							0752063320839	0672320835	us	The Ruby Way	The Ruby Way				Paperback		Object-Oriented Design/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$39.99	$13.69		4.5	The Ruby Way assumes that the reader is already familiar with the subject matter. Using many code samples it focuses on "how-to use Ruby" for specific applications, either as a stand-alone language, or in conjunction with other languages./ Topics covered include:/  • Simple data tasks;/  • Manipulating structured data;/  • External data manipulation;/  • User interfaces;/  • Handling threads;/  • System programming;/  • Network and web programming;/  • Tools and utilities./ Note: The appendices offer instruction on migrating from Perl and Python to Ruby, and extending Ruby in C and C++./ 		Sams	17-12-2001		07-02-2007															Hal Fulton		600										
+book							0785342633610	0201633612	us	Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)	Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)				Hardcover		Object-Oriented Design/ Software Development/ Software Reuse/ HTML - General/ Gangs/ Design Tools & Techniques/ Object-Oriented Software Design/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$54.99	$30.99		4.5	Design Patterns is a modern classic in the literature of object-oriented development, offering timeless and elegant solutions to common problems in software design. It describes patterns for managing object creation, composing objects into larger structures, and coordinating control flow between objects. The book provides numerous examples where using composition rather than inheritance can improve the reusability and flexibility of code. Note, though, that it's not a tutorial but a catalog that you can use to find an object-oriented design pattern that's appropriate for the needs of your particular application--a selection for virtuoso programmers who appreciate (or require) consistent, well-engineered object-oriented designs.		Addison-Wesley Professional	15-01-1995		07-02-2007															Erich Gamma/ Richard Helm/ Ralph Johnson/ John Vlissides		395										
+book								B0006AXOU2	us	Gravity: [classic and modern views] (Science study series)	Gravity: [classic and modern views] (Science study series)				Unknown Binding		Astrophysics & Space Science		$0.99					Anchor Books	08-02-1962		08-02-2007															George Gamow		157										
+book							9781422103296	1422103293	us	Changing Minds: The Art And Science of Changing Our Own And Other People's Minds (Leadership for the Common Good)	Changing Minds: The Art And Science of Changing Our Own And Other People's Minds (Leadership for the Common Good)				Paperback		Leadership/ Management/ Motivational/ Applied Psychology/ Cognitive	$14.95	$5.99		3	Think about the last time you tried to change someone’s mind about something important: a voter’s political beliefs; a customer’s favorite brand; a spouse’s decorating taste. Chances are you weren’t successful in shifting that person’s beliefs in any way. In his book, Changing Minds, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner explains what happens during the course of changing a mind – and offers ways to influence that process./ Remember that we don’t change our minds overnight, it happens in gradual stages that can be powerfully influenced along the way.This book provides insights that can broaden our horizons and shape our lives./ 		Harvard Business School Press	30-09-2006		08-02-2007															Howard Gardner		244										
+book							9780596007331	0596007337	us	We the Media	We the Media				Hardcover		Culture/ Government/ Internet Publishing/ Journalism/ Media Studies/ Weblogs/ Technology & Society	$24.95	$3.49		4.5	Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional journalists and the newsmakers they cover. In We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, nationally known business and technology columnist Dan Gillmor tells the story of this emerging phenomenon, and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make and consume the news. We the Media is essential reading for all participants in the news cycle:/  • Consumers learn how they can become producers of the news. Gillmor lays out the tools of the grassroots journalist's trade, including personal Web journals (called weblogs or blogs), Internet chat groups, email, and cell phones. He also illustrates how, in this age of media consolidation and diminished reporting, to roll your own news, drawing from the array of sources available online and even over the phone./  • Newsmakers politicians, business executives, celebrities get a wake-up call. The control that newsmakers enjoyed in the top-down world of Big Media is seriously undermined in the Internet Age. Gillmor shows newsmakers how to successfully play by the new rules and shift from control to engagement./  • Journalists discover that the new grassroots journalism presents opportunity as well as challenge to their profession. One of the first mainstream journalists to have a blog, Gillmor says, "My readers know more than I do, and that's a good thing." In We the Media, he makes the case to his colleagues that, in the face of a plethora of Internet-fueled news vehicles, they must change or become irrelevant./ At its core, We the Media is a book about people. People like Glenn Reynolds, a law professor whose blog postings on the intersection of technology and liberty garnered him enough readers and influence that he became a source for professional journalists. Or Ben Chandler, whose upset Congressional victory was fueled by contributions that came in response to ads on a handful of political blogs. Or Iraqi blogger Zayed, whose Healing Irag blog (healingiraq.blogspot.com) scooped Big Media. Or acridrabbit, who inspired an online community to become investigative reporters and discover that the dying Kaycee Nichols sad tale was a hoax. Give the people tools to make the news, We the Media asserts, and they will. Journalism in the 21st century will be fundamentally different from the Big Media that prevails today. We the Media casts light on the future of journalism, and invites us all to be part of it.		O'Reilly Media	08-02-2004		11-02-2007															Dan Gillmor		304										
+book							9780894711350	0894711350	us	Gray's Anatomy: The Unabridged Running Press Edition of the American Classic	Gray's Anatomy: The Unabridged Running Press Edition of the American Classic				Hardcover		Bargain Books/ Reference/ Family Health/ Anatomy/ Surgery/ Bargain Books Outlet	$18.98	$0.34		3.5	The leg bone's connected to the hip bone, and so on. For many of us, anatomy can seem intimidating and unrewarding, but the right teacher can clear such feelings away in a heartbeat. Our fascination with our bodies is a powerful force, and once we start looking, we find that beauty is much more than skin-deep./ It so happens that the right teacher can take the form of a book. Gray's Anatomy is one of those few titles that practically everybody has heard of, and with good reason--it is a scientific and artistic triumph. Not just a dry index of parts and names, Gray's lets the natural beauty and grace of the body's interconnected systems and structures shine forth from the page. Using sumptuous illustrations and clear, matter-of-fact descriptions, Dr. Gray unleashed a classic on the world more than 100 years ago. Its clarity and usefulness keep it in print today. Whether you want to understand yourself or others, knowledge of our physical parts and how they fit together is essential. Gray's Anatomy provides that information in a simple, timeless format that cleanly dissects a body of knowledge grown over centuries. This book will not only fill the needs of people in the medical profession, but will please artists and naturalists as well. --Rob Lightner/ 		Running Press Book Publishers			11-02-2007															Henry F. R. S. Gray/ T. Pickering Pick		1248										
+book							9780976694076	0976694077	us	Best of Ruby Quiz Volume One (Pragmatic Programmers)	Best of Ruby Quiz Volume One (Pragmatic Programmers)				Paperback/ Illustrated		Object-Oriented Design/ Software Development	$29.95	$13.71		4.5	Solve these twenty-five popular programming puzzles, and sharpen your programming skills as you craft solutions./ You'll find interesting and challenging programming puzzles including:/  • 800 Numbers/  • Crosswords/  • Cryptograms/  • Knight's Tour/  • Paper, Rock, Scissors/  • Tic-Tac-Toe/  • Texas Hold-Em/  • ...and more./ / Learning to program can be quite a challenge. Classes and books can get you so far, but at some point you have to sit down and start playing with some code. Only by reading and writing real code, with real problems, can you learn./ / The Ruby Quiz was built to fill exactly this need for Ruby programmers. Challenges, solutions, and discussions combine to make Ruby Quiz a powerful way to learn Ruby tricks. See how algorithms translate to Ruby code, get exposure to Ruby's libraries, and learn how other programmers use Ruby to solve problems quickly and efficiently./ 		Pragmatic Bookshelf	01-03-2006		08-02-2007															James Edward Gray		298										
+book							9780312064945	0312064942	us	The Alexander Technique: A Complete Course in How to Hold and Use Your Body for Maximum Energy	The Alexander Technique: A Complete Course in How to Hold and Use Your Body for Maximum Energy				Paperback		Stress Management/ Psychology & Counseling/ Physical Therapy/ Pharmacology/ Exercise/ Alexander Technique/ Injuries & Rehabilitation	$15.95	$5.00		3.5	The Alexander Technique is a proven process of mind and body reeducation that reduces stress and muscle tension, and revitalization those who practice it. Used by many actors, athletes, and dancers, the technique can help anyone increase his or her energy and achieve a more dynamic presence./ / Written by a veteran instructor of the Alexander Technique, this authentic and easy-to-follow guide allows everyone to learn the increasingly popular program, with clear instructions for each exercise, and dozens of helpful photographs that show correct and incorrect positions to use for the exercises and throughout the day./ 		St. Martin's Griffin	15-11-1991		11-02-2007															John Gray		176										
+book							9781556432149	1556432143	us	Planet Medicine: Modalities	Planet Medicine: Modalities				Paperback		Holistic/ Holistic Medicine/ Pharmacology/ History/ Philosophy of Medicine	$25.00	$7.43			Planet Medicine is a major work by an anthropologist who looks at medicine in a broad context. In this edition, additions to this classic text include a section on Reiki, a comparison of types of palpation used in healing, updates on craniosacral therapy, and a means of understanding how different alternative medicines actually work. Illustrated throughout, this is the standard on the history, philosophy, and anthropology of this subject.		North Atlantic Books	11-02-1995		11-02-2007															Richard Grossinger/ Spain Rodriguez/ Alex Grey		602										
+book							9781590590997	1590590996	us	Logging in Java with the JDK 1.4 Logging API and Apache log4j	Logging in Java with the JDK 1.4 Logging API and Apache log4j				Hardcover		Software Development	$49.99	$2.91		3	Logging in Java with the JDK 1.4 Logging API and Apache log4j is the first book to discuss the two foremost logging APIs: JDK 1.4.0 logging API and Apache log4j 1.2.6 logging API for application developers. The internals of each API are examined, contrasted, and compared in exhaustive depth. Programmers will find a wealth of information simply not available elsewhere--not even on the Internet./ Each concept explained is accompanied by code example written in Java language. The book also provides guidelines for extending the existing logging frameworks to cater to application-specific needs. This is an essential handbook for logging-related information and techniques needed for developing applications in the Java language./ 		Apress	15-04-2003		07-02-2007															Samudra Gupta		336										
+book							0785342753066	0201753065	us	Component Development for the Java Platform	Component Development for the Java Platform				Paperback		Software Design/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$39.99	$4.41		4.5			Addison-Wesley Professional	15-12-2001		07-02-2007			1												Stuart Dabbs Halloway		304										
+book							0636920002925	0596002920	us	XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition	XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition				Paperback		HTML - General/ XML/ Nutshell	$39.95	$0.46		4	Continuing in the tradition of the Nutshell series, XML in a Nutshell provides a dense tutorial on its subject, as well as a useful day-to-day reference. While the reader isn't expected to have prior expertise in XML, this book is most effective as an add-on to a more introductory tutorial because of its relatively fast pace./ The authors set out to systematically--and rapidly--cover the basics of XML first, namely the history of the markup language and the various languages and technologies that compose the standard. In this first section, they discuss the basics of XML markup, Document Type Definitions (DTDs), namespaces, and Unicode. From there, the authors move into "narrative-centric documents" in a section that appropriately focuses on the application of XML to books, articles, Web pages and other readable content./ This book definitely presupposes in the reader an aptitude for picking up concepts quickly and for rapidly building cumulative knowledge. Code examples are used--only to illustrate the particular point in question--but not in excess. The book gets into "data-centric" XML, exploring the difference between the object-driven Document Object Model (DOM) and the event-driven Simple API for XML (SAX). However, these areas are a little underpowered and offer a bit less detail about this key area than the reader will expect./ At the core of any Nutshell book is the reference section, and the installment found inside this text is no exception. Here, the XML 1.0 standard, XPath, XSLT, DOM, SAX, and character sets are covered. Some material that is covered earlier in the book--such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)--is not re-articulated, however. XML in a Nutshell is not the only book on XML you should have, but it is definitely one that no XML coder should be without. --Stephen W. Plain/ Topics covered:/  • XML history/  • Document Type Definitions (DTDs)/  • Namespaces/  • Internationalization/  • XML-based data formats/  • XHTML/  • XSL/  • XPath/  • XLink/  • XPointer/  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)/  • XSL-FO/  • Document Object Model (DOM)/  • Simple API for XML (SAX)/ 		O'Reilly	15-06-2002		07-02-2007															Elliotte Rusty Harold/ W. Scott Means		640										
+book							9781932394283	1932394281	us	Lucene in Action (In Action series)	Lucene in Action (In Action series)				Paperback/ Illustrated			$44.95	$31.14		4.5	Lucene is a gem in the open-source world‹-a highly scalable, fast search engine. It delivers performance and is disarmingly easy to use. Lucene in Action is the authoritative guide to Lucene. It describes how to index your data, including types you definitely need to know such as MS Word, PDF, HTML, and XML. It introduces you to searching, sorting, filtering, and highlighting search results./ / Lucene powers search in surprising places‹-in discussion groups at Fortune 100 companies, in commercial issue trackers, in email search from Microsoft, in the Nutch web search engine (that scales to billions of pages). It is used by diverse companies including Akamai, Overture, Technorati, HotJobs, Epiphany, FedEx, Mayo Clinic, MIT, New Scientist Magazine, and many others. Adding search to your application can be easy. With many reusable examples and good advice on best practices, Lucene in Action shows you how./ / What's Inside/ - How to integrate Lucene into your applications/ - Ready-to-use framework for rich document handling/ - Case studies including Nutch, TheServerSide, jGuru, etc./ - Lucene ports to Perl, Python, C#//.Net, and C++/ - Sorting, filtering, term vectors, multiple, and remote index searching/ - The new SpanQuery family, extending query parser, hit collecting/ - Performance testing and tuning/ - Lucene add-ons (hit highlighting, synonym lookup, and others)/ 		Manning Publications	28-12-2004		07-02-2007															Erik Hatcher/ Otis Gospodnetic		456										
+book							9781930110588	1930110588	us	Java Development with Ant	Java Development with Ant				Paperback/ Illustrated			$44.95	$24.67		4.5	Encompassing Java-centric software project best practices for designing and automating build, test, and deployment processes using ANT, this book is written for developers using Java in large software projects and those who have reached the limits of classic IDE development systems. Benefiting developers who apply extreme programming methodology to Java projects, this resource provides detailed coverage of ANT and explains how to use it in large projects and extend it when needed. In addition to using ANT for Java applications, it includes discussions of servlets and J2EE applications, which cover the majority of Java development projects./ 		Manning Publications	08-02-2002		07-02-2007															Erik Hatcher/ Steve Loughran		672										
+book							9781930110977	1930110979	us	Code Generation in Action	Code Generation in Action				Paperback		Software Design/ Software Development/ Systems Analysis & Design/ Coding Theory	$44.95	$9.95		4.5	Developers using code generation are producing higher quality code faster than their hand-coding counterparts. And, they enjoy other advantages like maintainability, consistency and abstraction. Using the new CG methods they can make a change in one place, avoiding multiple synchronized changes you must make by hand./ Code Generation in Action shows you the techniques of building and using programs to write other programs. It shows how to avoid repetition and error to produce consistent, high quality code, and how to maintain it more easily. It demonstrates code generators for user interfaces, database access, remote procedure access, and much more./ Code Generation in Action is an A-to-Z guide covering building, buying, deploying and using code generators. If you are a software engineer-whether beginner or advanced-eager to become the "ideas person," the mover-and-shaker on your development team, you should learn CG techniques. This book will help you master them./ What's Inside:/  • Code generation basics/  • CG techniques and best practices/  • Patterns of CG design/  • How to deploy generators/  • Many example generators/ Includes generators for:/  • Database access/  • RPC/  • Unit tests/  • Documentation/  • Business logic/  • Data translation/ Over his twenty years of development experience, Jack Herrington has shipped many software applications helped by code generation techniques. He runs the Code Generation Network.		Manning Publications	01-07-2003		07-02-2007															Jack Herrington		368										
+book							9780140951448	014095144X	us	Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet Boxed Set	Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet Boxed Set				Paperback/ Box set		History of Books/ 20th Century/ Taoism/ Entertainment/ Literature & Fiction/ Nonfiction/ Religion & Spirituality	$27.00	$9.89		4	Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the author of this smash bestseller explains with ease and aplomb that rather than being a distant and mysterious concept, Taoism is as near and practical to us as our morning breakfast bowl. Romp through the enchanting world of Winnie-the-Pooh while soaking up invaluable lessons on simplicity and natural living.		Penguin (Non-Classics)	01-11-1994		11-02-2007															Benjamin Hoff												
+book							9780140230161	0140230165	us	The Te of Piglet	The Te of Piglet				Paperback		History of Books/ British/ Taoism/ Mysticism/ 20th Century	$14.00	$1.05		3	In The Te of Piglet, a good deal of Taoist wisdom is revealed through the character and actions of A. A. Milne's Piglet. Piglet herein demonstrates a very important principle of Taoism: The Te-a Chinese word meaning Virtue-of the Small.		Penguin (Non-Classics)	01-11-1993		11-02-2007															Benjamin Hoff		272										
+book							9780553345841	0553345842	us	The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul	The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul				Paperback		Consciousness & Thought/ Cognitive Psychology/ Cognitive Science	$18.95	$1.43		4.5	Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The  Mind's I is a searching, probing nook--a  cosmic journey of the mind--that goes deeply into  the problem of self and self-consciousness as  anything written in our time. From verbalizing  chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving  machines with souls, from the mesmerizing, maze-like  fiction of Borges to the tantalizing, dreamlike  fiction of Lem and Princess Ineffable, her circuits  glowing read and gold, The Mind's I   opens the mind to the Black Box of fantasy, to the  windfalls of reflection, to new dimensions of  exciting possibilities.		Bantam	01-04-1985		08-02-2007															Douglas Hofstadter/ Daniel C. Dennett		512										
+book							9780880225724	0880225726	us	Unix Shell Commands Quick Reference (Que Quick Reference Series)	Unix Shell Commands Quick Reference (Que Quick Reference Series)				Paperback		MacOS/ Shell/ Macintosh/ Macs	$8.95	$0.77		4			Que Pub	10-02-1990		07-02-2007															William Holliker		154										
+book							9780131855861	0131855867	us	Spring Into HTML and CSS (Spring Into... Series)	Spring Into HTML and CSS (Spring Into... Series)				Paperback		HTML - General/ Internet/ XHTML/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$29.99	$6.00		4			Addison-Wesley Professional	22-04-2005		07-02-2007			1												Molly E. Holzschlag		336										
+book							9789629962166	9629962160	us	Business Chinese	Business Chinese				Paperback		English (All)/ Chinese/ Study & Teaching/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$33.00	$24.98			This book will help readers develop their competence in advanced Chinese in a business context. Rather than teaching language in isolation from substantive content, Business Chinese presents readers with both content and context. Exercises and tasks in the book require readers to integrate their language skills with their content knowledge. To meet learners'practical communication needs, the book focuses on both oral and written language skills./ In order to keep readers abreast of the real business world, all texts and exercises are drawn from authentic materials from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Business Chinese is the perfect, practical guide for those who want to master Chinese language and the Chinese business world./ 		Chinese University Press	20-07-2005		09-02-2007															Jiaying Howard/ Tsengtseng Chang		311										
+book							0785342616224	020161622X	us	The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master	The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master				Paperback		Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$45.99	$21.84		4.5	Programmers are craftspeople trained to use a certain set of tools (editors, object managers, version trackers) to generate a certain kind of product (programs) that will operate in some environment (operating systems on hardware assemblies). Like any other craft, computer programming has spawned a body of wisdom, most of which isn't taught at universities or in certification classes. Most programmers arrive at the so-called tricks of the trade over time, through independent experimentation. In The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas codify many of the truths they've discovered during their respective careers as designers of software and writers of code./ Some of the authors' nuggets of pragmatism are concrete, and the path to their implementation is clear. They advise readers to learn one text editor, for example, and use it for everything. They also recommend the use of version-tracking software for even the smallest projects, and promote the merits of learning regular expression syntax and a text-manipulation language. Other (perhaps more valuable) advice is more light-hearted. In the debugging section, it is noted that, "if you see hoof prints think horses, not zebras." That is, suspect everything, but start looking for problems in the most obvious places. There are recommendations for making estimates of time and expense, and for integrating testing into the development process. You'll want a copy of The Pragmatic Programmer for two reasons: it displays your own accumulated wisdom more cleanly than you ever bothered to state it, and it introduces you to methods of work that you may not yet have considered. Working programmers will enjoy this book. --David Wall/ Topics covered: A useful approach to software design and construction that allows for efficient, profitable development of high-quality products. Elements of the approach include specification development, customer relations, team management, design practices, development tools, and testing procedures. This approach is presented with the help of anecdotes and technical problems./ 		Addison-Wesley Professional	20-10-1999		07-02-2007			1												Andrew Hunt/ David Thomas		352										
+book							9780974514017	0974514012	us	Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit	Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit				Paperback/ Illustrated		Software Development/ Testing/ Information Systems/ Information Theory	$29.95	$16.46		4.5	Learn how to improve your Java coding skills using unit testing. Despite it's name, unit testing is really a coding technique, not a testing technique. Unit testing is done by programmers, for programmers. It's primarily for our benefit: we get improved confidence in our code, better ability to make deadlines, less time spent in the debugger, and less time beating on the code to make it work correctly. This book shows how to write tests, but more importantly, it goes where other books fear to tread and gives you concrete advice and examples of what to test--the common things that go wrong in all of our programs. Discover the tricky hiding places where bugs breed, and how to catch them using the freely available JUnit framework. It's easy to learn how to think of all the things in your code that are likely to break. We'll show you how with helpful mnemonics, summarized in a handy tip sheet (also available from our www.pragmaticprogrammer.com website) to help you remember all this stuff. With this book you will:/  • Write better code, and take less time to write it/  • Discover the tricky places where bugs breed/  • Learn how to think of all the things that could go wrong/  • Test individual pieces of code without having to include the whole project/  • Test effectively with the whole team/ We'll also cover how to use Mock Objects for testing, how to write high quality test code, and how to use unit testing to improve your design skills. We'll show you frequent "gotchas"--along with the fixes--to save you time when problems come up. We'll show you how with helpful mnemonics, summarized in a handy tip sheet (also available from our www.pragmaticprogrammer.com website). But the best part is that you don't need a sweeping mandate to change your whole team or your whole company. You don't need to adopt Extreme Programming or Test-Driven Development, or change your development process in order to reap the proven benefits of unit testing. You can start unit testing, the pragmatic way, right away.		The Pragmatic Programmers	09-02-2003		07-02-2007															Andrew Hunt/ David Thomas		159										
+book							9780596000400	0596000405	us	Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Edition	Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Edition				Paperback/ Illustrated		Web Site Design/ Java/ Web Programming/ Servlets	$44.95	$7.90		4	Aimed at Web developers with some previous Java experience, Java Servlet Programming, Second Edition, offers a solid introduction to the world of Java development with Servlets and related technologies. Thoroughly revised and newly updated with over a half-dozen new chapters, this title brings an already useful text up to speed with some leading-edge material. It excels particularly in explaining how to program dynamic Web content using Java Servlets, with a fine introduction to all the APIs, programming techniques, and tips you will need to be successful with this standard./ Besides a useful guide to APIs, the book looks at a variety of techniques for saving session state, as well as showing how Servlets can work together to power Web sites. You will learn performance tips and ways to get Servlets to work together (like forwarding and redirection), plus the basics of database programming with JDBC, to build content with "live" data. A later chapter examines what's next for Servlets with the emerging Servlet 2.3 API standard. Importantly, the authors go over deploying and configuring Web applications by editing XML files, a must-have for successfully running Servlets in real applications./ Since the first edition of this title, the choices for Java Web developers have grown much richer. Many of the new chapters in this edition look at options beyond Servlets. Short sections on application frameworks such as Tea, WebMacro, the Element Construction Set (ECS), XMLC, and JavaServer Pages (JSP) let you explore what's out there for Java developers today with a survey of some current tools that can speed up creating new Web applications./ The text closes with reference sections on Servlet APIs (and other material) that will be useful for any working developer. Although Servlets are not the only game in town, they are still important tools for successful Web development. This updated edition shows you just how to do it with plenty of basic and advanced tips for taking full advantage of this powerful Java standard. --Richard Dragan/ Topics covered:/  • Overview and history of Java Servlets/  • Fundamentals of HTTP/  • Web applications (including deployment and configuration using XML files)/  • The Servlet lifecycle (initializing, processing requests, cleanup, and caching)/  • Multimedia content (images and compressed content)/  • WAP and WML for wireless content/  • Servlet session tracking techniques (hidden form fields, cookies, and URL rewriting)/  • Security issues with Servlets (including certificates and SSL)/  • Tutorial for JDBC and Java database programming/  • Using applets and Servlets together/  • Servlet collaboration/  • Quick introduction to Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)/  • Internationalization issues/  • Survey of third-party Servlet application frameworks and tools: Tea, WebMacro, the Element Contruction Set (ECS), XMLC, and JavaServer Pages (JSP)/  • Miscellaneous tips for Servlets (including sending e-mail and using regular expressions)/  • Description of the new Servlet 2.3 API spec/  • Servlet API quick reference/ 		O'Reilly Media	15-01-2001		07-02-2007															Jason Hunter		753										
+book							9781930110991	1930110995	us	JUnit in Action	JUnit in Action				Paperback/ Illustrated		Object-Oriented Design/ Software Design/ Testing/ Systems Analysis & Design	$39.95	$21.83		4.5	A guide to unit testing Java applications (including J2EE applications) using the JUnit framework and its extensions, this book provides techniques for solving real-world problems such as unit testing legacy applications, writing real tests for real objects, automating tests, testing in isolation, and unit testing J2EE and database applications. Using a sample-driven approach, various unit testing strategies are covered, such as how to unit test EJBs, database applications, JSPs, and Taglibs. Also addressed are testing strategies using freely available open source frameworks and tools, and how to unit test in isolation with Mock Objects. Testing J2EE applications by running tests from inside the container for performing integration unit tests is discussed, as is how to automate unit testing in automated builds (such as Ant and Maven) for performing continuous integration./ 		Manning Publications	28-10-2003		07-02-2007															Ted Husted/ Vincent Massol		384										
+book							9781932394498	1932394494	us	RSS and Atom in Action: Web 2.0 Building Blocks	RSS and Atom in Action: Web 2.0 Building Blocks				Paperback/ Illustrated		Web Site Design/ Internet	$39.95	$19.98		4.5	RSS and Atom in Action is organized into two parts. The first part introduces the blog technologies of news feed formats and publishing protocols-the building blocks. The second part shows how to put to those blocks together to assemble interesting and useful blog applications. In keeping with the behind Manning's "In Action" series, this book shows the reader, through numerous examples in Java and C#, how to parse Atom and RSS format newsfeeds, how to generate valid newsfeeds and serve them efficiently, and how to automate blogging via web services based on the new Atom protocol and the older MetaWeblog API. The book also shows how to develop a complete blog client library that readers can use in their own applications. The second half of the book is devoted to a dozen blog apps-small but immediately useful example applications such as a community aggregator, a file distribution newsfeed, a blog cross-poster, an email-to-blog gateway, Ant tasks for blogging softwarebuilds, and more./ 		Manning Publications	31-07-2006		07-02-2007															Dave Johnson		300										
+book							9780684868769	0684868768	us	Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software	Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software				Paperback		Urban/ Chaos & Systems/ History of Science/ Acoustics & Sound/ System Theory/ General & Reference/ Systems Analysis & Design/ Information Theory	$15.00	$4.40		3.5	An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Web pundit Steven Johnson explains what we know about this phenomenon with a rare lucidity in Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. Starting with the weird behavior of the semi-colonial organisms we call slime molds, Johnson details the development of increasingly complex and familiar behavior among simple components: cells, insects, and software developers all find their place in greater schemes./ / Most game players, alas, live on something close to day-trader time, at least when they're in the middle of a game--thinking more about their next move than their next meal, and usually blissfully oblivious to the ten- or twenty-year trajectory of software development. No one wants to play with a toy that's going to be fun after a few decades of tinkering--the toys have to be engaging now, or kids will find other toys./ Johnson has a knack for explaining complicated and counterintuitive ideas cleverly without stealing the scene. Though we're far from fully understanding how complex behavior manifests from simple units and rules, our awareness that such emergence is possible is guiding research across disciplines. Readers unfamiliar with the sciences of complexity will find Emergence an excellent starting point, while those who were chaotic before it was cool will appreciate its updates and wider scope. --Rob Lightner/ 		Scribner	27-08-2002		11-02-2007															Steven Johnson		288										
+book							9780743241663	0743241665	us	Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life	Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life				Paperback		Consciousness & Thought/ Applied Psychology/ Neuropsychology/ Personality/ Physiology/ Neuroscience	$15.00	$4.96		4	Given the opportunity to watch the inner workings of his own brain, Steven Johnson jumps at the chance. He reveals the results in Mind Wide Open, an engaging and personal account of his foray into edgy brain science. In the 21st century, Johnson observes, we have become used to ideas such as "adrenaline rushes" and "serotonin levels," without really recognizing that complex neurobiology has become a commonplace thing to talk about. He sees recent laboratory revelations about the brain as crucial for understanding ourselves and our psyches in new, post-Freudian ways. Readers shy about slapping electrodes on their own temples can get a vicarious scientific thrill as Johnson tries out empathy tests, neurofeedback, and fMRI scans. The results paint a distinct picture of the author, and uncover general brain secrets at the same time. Memory, fear, love, alertness--all the multitude of states housed in our brains are shown to be the results of chemical and electrical interactions constantly fed and changed by input from our senses. Mind Wide Open both satisfies curiosity and provokes more questions, leaving readers wondering about their own gray matter. --Therese Littleton		Scribner	03-05-2005		11-02-2007															Steven Johnson		288										
+book							9780139376818	013937681X	us	The UNIX Programming Environment	The UNIX Programming Environment				Paperback		History/ Unix/ History of Ideas	$49.99	$14.04		4.5			Prentice Hall	03-02-1984		07-02-2007															Brian W. Kernighan/ Rob Pike		357										
+book							9780312421434	0312421435	us	No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs	No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs				Paperback		Company Histories/ Labor Policy/ International/ Labor & Industrial Relations/ Production & Operations/ Advertising/ Global/ Ethics/ Anthropology/ Consumer Guides/ Media Studies/ Culture	$15.00	$6.38		4	We live in an era where image is nearly everything, where the proliferation of brand-name culture has created, to take one hyperbolic example from Naomi Klein's No Logo, "walking, talking, life-sized Tommy [Hilfiger] dolls, mummified in fully branded Tommy worlds." Brand identities are even flourishing online, she notes--and for some retailers, perhaps best of all online: "Liberated from the real-world burdens of stores and product manufacturing, these brands are free to soar, less as the disseminators of goods or services than as collective hallucinations."/ In No Logo, Klein patiently demonstrates, step by step, how brands have become ubiquitous, not just in media and on the street but increasingly in the schools as well. (The controversy over advertiser-sponsored Channel One may be old hat, but many readers will be surprised to learn about ads in school lavatories and exclusive concessions in school cafeterias.) The global companies claim to support diversity, but their version of "corporate multiculturalism" is merely intended to create more buying options for consumers. When Klein talks about how easy it is for retailers like Wal-Mart and Blockbuster to "censor" the contents of videotapes and albums, she also considers the role corporate conglomeration plays in the process. How much would one expect Paramount Pictures, for example, to protest against Blockbuster's policies, given that they're both divisions of Viacom?/ Klein also looks at the workers who keep these companies running, most of whom never share in any of the great rewards. The president of Borders, when asked whether the bookstore chain could pay its clerks a "living wage," wrote that "while the concept is romantically appealing, it ignores the practicalities and realities of our business environment." Those clerks should probably just be grateful they're not stuck in an Asian sweatshop, making pennies an hour to produce Nike sneakers or other must-have fashion items. Klein also discusses at some length the tactic of hiring "permatemps" who can do most of the work and receive few, if any, benefits like health care, paid vacations, or stock options. While many workers are glad to be part of the "Free Agent Nation," observers note that, particularly in the high-tech industry, such policies make it increasingly difficult to organize workers and advocate for change./ But resistance is growing, and the backlash against the brands has set in. Street-level education programs have taught kids in the inner cities, for example, not only about Nike's abusive labor practices but about the astronomical markup in their prices. Boycotts have commenced: as one urban teen put it, "Nike, we made you. We can break you." But there's more to the revolution, as Klein optimistically recounts: "Ethical shareholders, culture jammers, street reclaimers, McUnion organizers, human-rights hacktivists, school-logo fighters and Internet corporate watchdogs are at the early stages of demanding a citizen-centered alternative to the international rule of the brands ... as global, and as capable of coordinated action, as the multinational corporations it seeks to subvert."No Logo is a comprehensive account of what the global economy has wrought and the actions taking place to thwart it. --Ron Hogan/ 		Picador	06-04-2002		11-02-2007															Naomi Klein		528										
+book							0029236723101	0789723107	us	Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability	Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability				Paperback		Web Site Design/ Internet Publishing/ Interface Design	$35.00	$14.98		5	Usability design is one of the most important--yet often least attractive--tasks for a Web developer. In Don't Make Me Think, author Steve Krug lightens up the subject with good humor and excellent, to-the-point examples./ The title of the book is its chief personal design premise. All of the tips, techniques, and examples presented revolve around users being able to surf merrily through a well-designed site with minimal cognitive strain. Readers will quickly come to agree with many of the book's assumptions, such as "We don't read pages--we scan them" and "We don't figure out how things work--we muddle through." Coming to grips with such hard facts sets the stage for Web design that then produces topnotch sites./ Using an attractive mix of full-color screen shots, cute cartoons and diagrams, and informative sidebars, the book keeps your attention and drives home some crucial points. Much of the content is devoted to proper use of conventions and content layout, and the "before and after" examples are superb. Topics such as the wise use of rollovers and usability testing are covered using a consistently practical approach./ This is the type of book you can blow through in a couple of evenings. But despite its conciseness, it will give you an expert's ability to judge Web design. You'll never form a first impression of a site in the same way again. --Stephen W. Plain/ Topics covered:/  • User patterns/  • Designing for scanning/  • Wise use of copy/  • Navigation design/  • Home page layout/  • Usability testing/ 		New Riders Press	13-10-2000		07-02-2007															Steve Krug		195										
+book							9781585730407	1585730408	us	Pocket Menu Reader China (Pocket Dictionaries) (Langenscheidt's Pocket Menu Reader)	Pocket Menu Reader China (Pocket Dictionaries) (Langenscheidt's Pocket Menu Reader)				Paperback		Chinese/ Dictionaries; Polyglot/ Phrasebooks - General/ Dining	$7.95	$4.98		1	Each Pocket Menu Reader is an indispensable gastronomic dictionary, phrasebook, and guidebook. It includes more than 1,500 words with translations and pronunciations, comprehensive treatment of the country's cuisine, an alphabetical list of dishes and culinary terms, plus a gourmet's selection of recipes.		Langenscheidt Publishers	15-11-2000		11-02-2007															Langenscheidt		189										
+book							9780897500487	0897500482	us	Tao of Jeet Kune Do	Tao of Jeet Kune Do				Paperback		Contemporary/ New Age	$16.95	$7.00		4.5	To watch Bruce Lee on film is an amazing experience. Those who have read Tao of Jeet Kune Do, however, know that Lee's prose can also be exhilarating. This praiseworthy and enduring bestseller (mainly written over six months when Lee was bedridden with back problems) compiles philisophical aphorisms, explanations on technique, and sketches by the master himself.		Ohara Publications	07-02-1993		06-02-2007															Bruce Lee		208										
+book							9780974175706	0974175706	us	Getting Around in Chinese	Getting Around in Chinese				Paperback		Study & Teaching	$25.00	$13.25		3			Marco Liang & Co.	02-02-2003		11-02-2007															Marco Liang		669										
+book							9780201570090	0201570092	us	China: Empire of Living Symbols	China: Empire of Living Symbols				Hardcover		Photo Essays/ Chinese/ Linguistics	$39.90	$1,203.99		4.5			Perseus Books	11-02-1991		11-02-2007															Cecilia Lindqvist		423										
+book							9781556432767	1556432763	us	Ba Gua: Hidden Knowledge in the Taoist Internal Martial Art	Ba Gua: Hidden Knowledge in the Taoist Internal Martial Art				Paperback		Reference	$16.95	$6.49		4			North Atlantic Books	12-02-1998		11-02-2007															Hsing-Han Liu/ John Bracy		138										
+book							9780738204314	0738204315	us	The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual	The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual				Paperback		Strategy & Competition/ Theory/ Customer Service/ Systems & Planning/ Consumerism/ Web Marketing/ Social Theory/ Peripherals	$14.00	$1.79		4	How would you classify a book that begins with the salutation, "People of Earth..."? While the captains of industry might dismiss it as mere science fiction, The Cluetrain Manifesto is definitely of this day and age. Aiming squarely at the solar plexus of corporate America, authors Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger show how the Internet is turning business upside down. They proclaim that, thanks to conversations taking place on Web sites and message boards, and in e-mail and chat rooms, employees and customers alike have found voices that undermine the traditional command-and-control hierarchy that organizes most corporate marketing groups. "Markets are conversations," the authors write, and those conversations are "getting smarter faster than most companies." In their view, the lowly customer service rep wields far more power and influence in today's marketplace than the well-oiled front office PR machine./ The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site (www.cluetrain.com) in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal, and NPR, posted 95 theses that pronounced what they felt was the new reality of the networked marketplace. For example, thesis no. 2: "Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors"; thesis no. 20: "Companies need to realize their markets are often laughing. At them"; thesis no. 62: "Markets do not want to talk to flacks and hucksters. They want to participate in the conversations going on behind the corporate firewall"; thesis no. 74: "We are immune to advertising. Just forget it." The book enlarges on these themes through seven essays filled with dozens of stories and observations about how business gets done in America and how the Internet will change it all. While Cluetrain will strike many as loud and over the top, the message itself remains quite relevant and unique. This book is for anyone interested in the Internet and e-commerce, and is especially important for those businesses struggling to navigate the topography of the wired marketplace. All aboard! --Harry C. Edwards/ 		Perseus Books Group	09-01-2001		11-02-2007															Christopher Locke/ Rick Levine/ Doc Searls/ David Weinberger		190										
+book							9780806906164	0806906162	us	Chinese System Of Natural Cures	Chinese System Of Natural Cures				Paperback		Herbal Remedies/ Basic Science/ History/ Chinese Medicine	$11.95	$1.98		3	Discover traditional Chinese herbal healing formulas--and how to use the Four Energies, the Five Flavors, and the Four Movements to prescribe various herbal treatments, as well as acupuncture and other methods of pain relief. Detailed sections of specific treatments of patients' complaints, and recommended herbal treatments for diagnosed diseases, including high cholesterol, diabetes, heart and coronary problems, arthritis, allergies, and more./ 		Sterling	31-12-1994		11-02-2007															Henry C. Lu		160										
+book							9780156799805	0156799804	us	The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life	The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life				Paperback		Taoism/ New Age/ Behavioral Psychology	$12.00	$1.24		4	1955. The point of view established in this volume is that the spirit must lean on science as its guide in the world of reality, and that science must turn to the spirit for the meaning of life. This book lends us a new approach to the East, and it also strengthens the point of view evolving in the West with respect to the psyche. Wilhelm provides the reader with the text and explanation, while another section contains commentary by Jung.		Harvest//HBJ Book	08-02-1962		08-02-2007															Tung-Pin Lu		149										
+book							9780394717272	0394717279	us	Acupuncture: The Ancient Chinese Art of Healing and How it Works Scientifically	Acupuncture: The Ancient Chinese Art of Healing and How it Works Scientifically				Paperback		Acupuncture & Acupressure/ Healing/ China/ Pharmacology	$11.00	$0.01			Dr. Felix Mann, President of the Medical Acupuncture Society, is one of the outstanding Western practitioners of the ancient Chinese art, which he has been using for some years in London. In this complete revision of his 1962 book -- over half of which is entirely new material -- he describes in detail for the first time how acupuncture works from a scientific point of view, explaining the neurophysiological mechanism involved as well as the basic principles and laws according to the theories of traditional Chinese medicine. Written for both the layman and the medical profession, the book illustrates its points with case histories drawn from Dr. Mann's own patients in England.		Vintage	12-01-1973		06-02-2007															Felix Mann		256										
+book							9780135974445	0135974445	us	Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices	Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices				Hardcover		C & C++ Windows Programming/ Object-Oriented Design/ Software Development/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$68.20	$38.50		4.5			Prentice Hall	15-10-2002		03-02-2007															Robert C. Martin		552										
+book							9780974514062	0974514063	us	Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion	Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion				Paperback/ Illustrated		Software Design/ Software Development/ Software Engineering	$29.95	$23.94		4.5	This book covers the theory behind version control and how it can help developers become more efficient, work better as a team, and keep on top of software complexity. All projects need version control: it's the lifeblood of any project's infrastructure, yet half of all project teams in the U.S. don't use any version control at all. Many others don't use it well and end up experiencing time-consuming problems. Version control, done well, is your "undo" button for the project: nothing is final, and mistakes are easily rolled back. This book describes Subversion, the latest and hottest open source version control system, using a recipe-based approach that will get you up and running quickly--and correctly. Learn how to use Subversion the right way--the pragmatic way. With this book, you can:/  • Keep all project assets safe--not just source code--and never run the risk of losing a great idea/  • Know how to undo bad decisions--even directories and symlinks are versioned/  • Learn how to share code safely, and work in parallel for maximum efficiency/  • Install Subversion and organize, administer and backup your repository/  • Share code over a network with Apache, svnserve, or ssh/  • Create and manage releases, code branches, merges and bug fixes/  • Manage 3rd party code safely/ Now there's no excuse not to use professional-grade version control.		Pragmatic Bookshelf	08-02-2005		07-02-2007															Mike Mason		207										
+book							9780804836340	0804836345	us	Chinese Character Fast Finder	Chinese Character Fast Finder				Paperback		English (All)/ Chinese	$19.95	$13.48		5	Chinese Character Fast Finder allows users to find Chinese characters based on their appearance alone, without knowing their pronunciation, radical or stroke count. This reference book has been designed for serious learners of Chinese as well as readers with an interest in written Chinese./ Convenient features include printed thumb-index marks for rapid access to any character; all the characters prescribed for the Chinese government's official HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Koshi) Language Proficiency Test, and simplified characters and their pinyin pronunciation.		Tuttle Publishing	15-03-2005		07-02-2007															Laurence Matthews		256										
+book							9780596009281	0596009283	us	Firefox Hacks: Tips & Tools for Next-Generation Web Browsing (Hacks)	Firefox Hacks: Tips & Tools for Next-Generation Web Browsing (Hacks)				Paperback/ Illustrated		Privacy/ Network Security/ Software Development/ Web Browsers/ Web Programming/ Internet Security/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$24.95	$12.74		4.5	Firefox Hacks is ideal for power users who want to take full advantage of Firefox from Mozilla, the next-generation web browser that is rapidly subverting Internet Explorer's once-dominant audience. It's also the first book that specifically dedicates itself to this technology. Firefox is winning such widespread approval for a number of reasons, including the fact that it lets users browse faster and more efficiently. Perhaps its most appealing strength, though, is its increased security something that is covered in great detail in Firefox Hacks. Clearly the web browser of the future, Firefox includes most of the features that browser users are familiar with, along with several new features, such as a bookmarks toolbar and tabbed pages that allow users to quickly switch among several web sites. Firefox Hacks offers all the valuable tips and tools you need to maximize the effectiveness of this hot web application. It's all covered, including how to customize its deployment, appearance, features, and functionality. You'll even learn how to install, use, and alter extensions and plug-ins. Aimed at clever people who may or may not be capable of basic programming tasks, this convenient resource describes 100 techniques for 100 strategies that effectively exploit Firefox. Or, put another way, readers of every stripe will find all the user-friendly tips, tools, and tricks they need to make a productive switch to Firefox. With Firefox Hacks, a superior and safer browsing experience is truly only pages away. The latest in O'Reilly's celebrated Hacks series, Firefox Hacks smartly complements other web-application titles such as Google Hacks and PayPal Hacks.		O'Reilly Media	14-03-2005		07-02-2007															Nigel McFarlane		377										
+book							9780321356703	0321356705	us	Software Security: Building Security In (Addison-Wesley Software Security Series)	Software Security: Building Security In (Addison-Wesley Software Security Series)				Paperback		Privacy/ Network Security/ Software Development	$49.99	$6.40		5			Addison-Wesley Professional	23-01-2006		07-02-2007			1												Gary McGraw		448										
+book							9780124848306	0124848303	us	Programming for the Newton Using Windows	Programming for the Newton Using Windows				Paperback		Object-Oriented Design/ Software Development/ Windows - General/ PCs	$34.95	$9.46		5			Morgan Kaufmann Pub	09-02-1996		07-02-2007															Julie McKeehan/ Neil Rhodes		440										
+book							0676251832068	0804832064	us	Reading and Writing Chinese: A Guide to the Chinese Writing System	Reading and Writing Chinese: A Guide to the Chinese Writing System				Paperback		Chinese/ Phrasebooks - General/ Southeast Asian/ Reading Skills/ Study & Teaching/ Writing Skills	$24.95	$12.50		4	Reading and Writing Chinese has been the standard text for foreign students and teachers of the Chinese Writing System since Tuttle first published it over 20 years ago. This new, completely revised edition offers students a more convenient, efficient, and up-to-date introduction to the writing system./ 		Charles E. Tuttle Co.	09-02-1999		11-02-2007															William McNaughton/ Li Ying		368										
+book							9780877736769	0877736766	us	WAY OF CHAUNG TZU (Shambhala Pocket Classics)	WAY OF CHAUNG TZU (Shambhala Pocket Classics)				Paperback		Taoism/ Eastern Philosophy/ Comparative Religion/ Paperback	$6.00	$5.80		5	Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of personal versions from his favorites among the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of the Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief authentic historical spokesman for Taoism and its founder Lao Tzu (a legendary character known largely through Chuang Tzu's writings). Indeed it was because of Chuang Tzu and the other Taoist sages that Indian Buddhism was transformed, in China, into the unique vehicle we now call by its Japanese name — Zen. The Chinese sage abounds in wit, paradox, satire, and shattering insight into the true ground of being. Father Merton, no stranger to Asian thought, brings a vivid, modern idiom to the timeless wisdom of Tao. Illustrated with early Chinese drawings.		Shambhala	30-06-1992		11-02-2007															Thomas Merton		240										
+book							0636920926221	1565926226	us	Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide	Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide				Paperback		Web Site Design/ Internet Publishing/ Database Design/ Structured Design/ HTML - General/ Web Programming/ Web Authoring & Design	$34.95	$1.70		4	Cascading Style Sheets can put a great deal of control and flexibility into the hands of a Web designer--in theory. In reality, however, varying browser support for CSS1 and lack of CSS2 implementation makes CSS a very tricky topic. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide is a comprehensive text that shows how to take advantage of the benefits of CSS while keeping compatibility issues in mind./ The book is very upfront about the spotty early browser support for CSS1 and the sluggish adoption of CSS2. However, enthusiasm for the technology spills out of the pages, making a strong case for even the most skeptical reader to give CSS a whirl and count on its future. The text covers CSS1 in impressive depth--not only the syntactical conventions but also more general concepts such as specificity and inheritance. Frequent warnings and tips alert the reader to browser-compatibility pitfalls./ Entire chapters are devoted to topics like units and values, visual formatting and positioning, and the usual text, fonts, and colors. This attention to both detail and architecture helps readers build a well-rounded knowledge of CSS and equips readers for a future of real-world debugging. Cascading Style Sheets honestly explains the reasons for avoiding an in-depth discussion of the still immature CSS2, but covers the general changes over CSS1 in a brief chapter near the end of the book./ When successfully implemented, Cascading Style Sheets result in much more elegant HTML that separates form from function. This fine guide delivers on its promise as an indispensable tool for CSS coders. --Stephen W. Plain/ Topics covered:/  • HTML with CSS/  • Selectors and structure/  • Units/  • Text manipulation/  • Colors and backgrounds/  • Boxes and borders/  • Visual formatting principles/  • Positioning/  • CSS2 preview/  • CSS case studies/ 		O'Reilly	15-05-2000		07-02-2007															Eric Meyer		470										
+book							0636920001201	0596001207	us	CSS Pocket Reference	CSS Pocket Reference				Paperback		Web Graphics/ Web Site Design/ Internet Publishing/ HTML - General/ Pocket/ Web Programming/ Web Authoring & Design	$9.95	$2.11		4	CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is the W3C-approved method for enriching the visual presentation of web pages. CSS allows web pages to become more structural, and at the same time promises that they can have a more sophisticated look than ever before. With good implementations in Internet Explorer 5.0 and Opera 3.6, and 100% CSS1 support expected in Netscapes's Mozilla browser, signs are that CSS is rapidly becoming a useful, reliable, and powerful tool for web authors./ The CSS Pocket Reference briefly introduces CSS and then lists all CSS1 properties, plus the CSS1 pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes. Since browser incompatibility is the biggest obstacle to CSS adoption, we've also included a comprehensive guide to how the browsers have implemented support for CSS1. For anyone who wants to correctly implement CSS, this is a handy condensed reference to all the details in the larger volume, Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide./ 		O'Reilly	16-05-2001		07-02-2007															Eric A. Meyer		96										
+book							0752064712459	073571245X	us	Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design	Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design				Paperback		Web Site Design/ Internet Publishing/ HTML - General/ jp-unknown1/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$45.00	$9.99		4.5	There are several other books on the market that serve as in-depth technical guides or reference books for CSS. None, however, take a more hands-on approach and use practical examples to teach readers how to solve the problems they face in designing with CSS - until now. Eric Meyer provides a variety of carefully crafted projects that teach how to use CSS and why particular methods were chosen. The web site includes all of the files needed to complete the tutorials in the book. In addition, bonus information is be posted.		New Riders Press	28-06-2002		03-02-2007															Eric A. Meyer		352										
+book							9780865681743	0865681740	us	Xing Yi Nei Gong: Xing Yi Health Maintenance and Internal Strength Development	Xing Yi Nei Gong: Xing Yi Health Maintenance and Internal Strength Development				Paperback			$21.95	$14.05		4.5	This is the most complete book on the art of xing yi (hsing Yi) available. It includes the complete xing yi history and lineage going back eight generations; manuscripts handed down from famous practitioners Dai Long Bang and Li Neng Ran; 16 health maintenance and power development exercises; qigong (chi kung) exerices; xing yi long spear power training exercises; and more.		Unique Publications	10-02-1998		03-02-2007															Dan Miller/ Tim Cartmell		200										
+book							9781883175009	1883175003	us	Liang Zhen Pu Eight Diagram Palm	Liang Zhen Pu Eight Diagram Palm				Paperback		Taichi/ jp-unknown3	$17.95	$14.99		5			High View Pubns	04-02-1993		11-02-2007															Li Zi Ming		168										
+book							9780609810347	0609810340	us	Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation	Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation				Paperback		Eastern/ Bhagavad Gita	$13.95	$7.45		3.5	On the list of the greatest spiritual books of all time, the Bhagavad Gita resides permanently in the top echelon. This poem of patently Indian genius sprouted an immense tree of devotional, artistic, and philosophical elaboration in the subcontinent. The scene is a battlefield with the prince Arjuna pitted against his own family, but no sooner does the poem begin than the action reverts inward. Krishna, Arjuna's avatar and spiritual guide, points the way to the supreme wisdom and perfect freedom that lie within everyone's reach. Worship and be faithful, meditate and know reality--these make up the secret of life and lead eventually to the realization that the self is the root of the world. In this titular translation, Stephen Mitchell's rhythms are faultless, making music of this ancient "Song of the Blessed One." Savor his rendition, but nibble around the edges of his introduction. In a bizarre mixture of praise and condescension, Mitchell disregards two millennia of Indian commentary, seeking illumination on the text from Daoism and Zen, with the Gita coming up just shy of full spiritual merit. Perhaps we should take it from Gandhi, who used the Gita as a handbook for life, that it nourishes on many levels. --Brian Bruya		Three Rivers Press	27-08-2002		11-02-2007															Stephen Mitchell		224										
+book							9780060923211	0060923210	us	The Gospel According to Jesus	The Gospel According to Jesus				Paperback		Classics/ New Testament/ Study/ Inspirational/ Christology	$14.00	$2.62		3.5	A dazzling presentation of the life and teachings of Jesus by the eminent scholar and translator Stephen Mitchell.		Harper Perennial	31-03-1993		08-02-2007															Stephen Mitchell		320										
+book							9780690012903	069001290X	us	Flower, Moon, Snow: A Book of Haiku	Flower, Moon, Snow: A Book of Haiku				Library Binding		20th Century/ Japanese & Haiku/ United States	$12.89	$4.40					Crowell	04-02-1977		03-02-2007															Kazue Mizumura		48										
+book							9780060922245	0060922249	us	Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life	Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life				Paperback		Personal Transformation/ New Age/ Spiritual/ Pastoral Theology	$14.00	$0.01		4	Care of the Soul is considered to be one of the best primers for soul work ever written. Thomas Moore, an internationally renowned theologian and former Catholic monk, offers a philosophy for living that involves accepting our humanity rather than struggling to transcend it. By nurturing the soul in everyday life, Moore shows how to cultivate dignity, peace, and depth of character. For example, in addressing the importance of daily rituals he writes, "Ritual maintains the world's holiness. As in a dream a small object may assume significance, so in a life that is animated by ritual there are no insignificant things." This is the eloquence that helped reintroduce the sacred into everyday language and contemporary values.		Harper Paperbacks	26-01-1994		03-02-2007															Thomas Moore		336										
+book							9780416543506	0416543502	us	Pooh's Workout Book	Pooh's Workout Book				Hardcover		Parodies/ British		$13.44		5			Methuen young books	24-10-1985		11-02-2007															Ethan Mordden		176										
+book							9780596007652	0596007655	us	Ambient Findability	Ambient Findability				Paperback/ Illustrated		Web Site Design/ Database Design/ Internet/ Web Programming/ Web Authoring & Design/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$29.95	$14.94		4	How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. Written by Peter Morville, author of the groundbreaking Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the book defines our current age as a state of unlimited findability. In other words, anyone can find anything at any time. Complete navigability./ Morville discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that are coming together to make unlimited findability possible. He explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society, since Web access is now a standard requirement for successful people and businesses. But before he does that, Morville looks back at the history of wayfinding and human evolution, suggesting that our fear of being lost has driven us to create maps, charts, and now, the mobile Internet./ The book's central thesis is that information literacy, information architecture, and usability are all critical components of this new world order. Hand in hand with that is the contention that only by planning and designing the best possible software, devices, and Internet, will we be able to maintain this connectivity in the future. Morville's book is highlighted with full color illustrations and rich examples that bring his prose to life./ Ambient Findability doesn't preach or pretend to know all the answers. Instead, it presents research, stories, and examples in support of its novel ideas. Are we truly at a critical point in our evolution where the quality of our digital networks will dictate how we behave as a species? Is findability indeed the primary key to a successful global marketplace in the 21st century and beyond. Peter Morville takes you on a thought-provoking tour of these memes and more -- ideas that will not only fascinate but will stir your creativity in practical ways that you can apply to your work immediately./ "A lively, enjoyable and informative tour of a topic that's only going to become more important."
--David Weinberger, Author, Small Pieces Loosely Joined and The Cluetrain Manifesto/ "I envy the young scholar who finds this inventive book, by whatever strange means are necessary. The future isn't just unwritten--it's unsearched."
--Bruce Sterling, Writer, Futurist, and Co-Founder, The Electronic Frontier Foundation/ "Search engine marketing is the hottest thing in Internet business, and deservedly so. Ambient Findability puts SEM into a broader context and provides deeper insights into human behavior. This book will help you grow your online business in a world where being found is not at all certain."
--Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., Author, Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity/ "Information that's hard to find will remain information that's hardly found--from one of the fathers of the discipline of information architecture, and one of its most experienced practitioners, come penetrating observations on why findability is elusive and how the act of seeking changes us."
--Steve Papa, Founder and Chairman, Endeca/ "Whether it's a fact or a figure, a person or a place, Peter Morville knows how to make it findable. Morville explores the possibilities of a world where everything can always be found--and the challenges in getting there--in this wide-ranging, thought-provoking book."
--Jesse James Garrett, Author, The Elements of User Experience/ "It is easy to assume that current searching of the World Wide Web is the last word in finding and using information. Peter Morville shows us that search engines are just the beginning. Skillfully weaving together information science research with his own extensive experience, he develops for the reader a feeling for the near future when information is truly findable all around us. There are immense implications, and Morville's lively and humorous writing brings them home."
--Marcia J. Bates, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles/ "I've always known that Peter Morville was smart. After reading Ambient Findability, I now know he's (as we say in Boston) wicked smart. This is a timely book that will have lasting effects on how we create our future.
--Jared Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering/ "In Ambient Findability, Peter Morville has put his mind and keyboard on the pulse of the electronic noosphere. With tangible examples and lively writing, he lays out the challenges and wonders of finding our way in cyberspace, and explains the mutually dependent evolution of our changing world and selves. This is a must read for everyone and a practical guide for designers."
--Gary Marchionini, Ph.D., University of North Carolina/ "Find this book! Anyone interested in making information easier to find, or understanding how finding and being found is changing, will find this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, literate, insightful and very, very cool book well worth their time. Myriad examples from rich and varied domains and a valuable idea on nearly every page. Fun to read, too!
--Joseph Janes, Ph.D., Founder, Internet Public Library/ 		O'Reilly Media	01-10-2005		07-02-2007															Peter Morville		188										
+book							0636920924180	1565924185	us	Java Threads, Second Edition	Java Threads, Second Edition				Paperback		Parallel Computing/ Java	$34.95	$0.47		3.5	Building sophisticated Java applets means learning about threading--if you need to read data from a network, for example, you can't afford to let a delay in its delivery lock up your entire applet. Java Threads introduces the Java threading API and uses non-computing analogies--such as scenarios involving bank tellers--to explain the need for synchronization and the dangers of deadlock. Scott Oaks and Henry Wong follow up their high-level examples with more detailed discussions on building a thread scheduler in Java, dealing with advanced synchronization issues, and handling exceptions.		O'Reilly	20-01-1999		07-02-2007															Scott Oaks/ Henry Wong		336										
+book							9780312275631	0312275633	us	Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance	Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance				Paperback		Meditation/ Mysticism/ Self-Help/ Spiritualism/ Osho/ Personal Transformation	$11.95	$7.61		4.5	Underlying all meditation techniques, including martial arts-and in fact underlying all great athletic performances-is a quality of being awake and present to the moment, a quality that Osho calls awareness. Once we can identify and understand what this quality of awareness is, we have the key to self-mastery in virtually every area of our lives.According to great masters like Lao Tzu or Buddha, most of us move through our lives like sleepwalkers. Never really present in what we are doing, never fully alert to our environment, and not even aware of what motivates us to do and say the things we do.At the same time, all of us have experienced moments of awareness-or awakening, to use another-in extraordinary circumstances. On the road, in a sudden and unexpected accident, time seems to stop and one is suddenly aware of every movement, every sound, every thought. Or in moments that touch us deeply-welcoming a new baby into the world for the first time, or being with someone at the moment of death.Awareness, says Osho, is the key to being self-directed, centered, and free in every aspect of our lives. In this book, Osho teaches how to live life more attentively, mindfully, and meditatively, with love, caring and consciousness.OSHO challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India. More than a decade after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.		St. Martin's Griffin	10-12-2001		03-02-2007															Osho		192										
+book							9781580632256	1580632254	us	Tao: The Pathless Path	Tao: The Pathless Path				Paperback		Taoism/ Osho	$12.95	$7.61		5	In his commentaries on five parables from the Leih Tzu, Osho brings a fresh and contemporary interpretation to the ancient wisdom of Tao. Leih Tzu was a well-known Taoist master in the fourth century B.C., and his sly critiques of a Confucius provide abundant opportunities for the reader to explore the contrasts between the rational and irrational, the male and female, the structured and the spontaneous."Who Is Really Happy" uses the discovery of a human skull on the roadside to probe into the question of immortality and how misery arises out of the existence of the ego."A Man Who Knows How to Console Himself" looks beneath the apparent cheerfulness of a wandering monk and asks if there is really a happiness that endures through life's ups and downs."No Regrets" is a parable about the difference between the knowledge that is gathered from the outside and the "knowing" that arises from within."No Rest for the Living" uses a dialogue between a despondent seeker and his master to reveal the limits of philosophy and the crippling consequences of living for the sake of some future goal. "Best Be Still, Best Be Empty" discusses the difference between the path of the will, the via affirmitiva of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, versus the path of the mystic, the via negativa of Buddha and Lao Tzu.A Q&A section addresses how Taoist understanding applies to everyday life in concrete, practical terms.		Renaissance Books	23-02-2002		11-02-2007															Osho		192										
+book							9780865681729	0865681724	us	Fundamentals of Pa Kua Chan, Vol. 1	Fundamentals of Pa Kua Chan, Vol. 1				Paperback			$19.95	$9.00		4.5			Unique Publications	01-02-1999		11-02-2007															Bok Nam Park/ Dan Miller		204										
+book								B000AMLXHM	us	THE EMPEROR'S NEW MIND: CONCERNING COMPUTERS, MINDS, AND THE LAWS OF PHYSICS..."Ranks among the most innovative and exciting science books to be published in the last forty years."	THE EMPEROR'S NEW MIND: CONCERNING COMPUTERS, MINDS, AND THE LAWS OF PHYSICS..."Ranks among the most innovative and exciting science books to be published in the last forty years."				Paperback				$1.89					PENGUIN BOOKS	08-02-1990		08-02-2007															ROGER PENROSE												
+book							9780936085241	093608524X	us	The Fine Art of Technical Writing	The Fine Art of Technical Writing				Paperback		Technical	$9.95	$0.95		4.5	This slender volume for the beginning technical writer doesn't delve very deeply into its subject, but The Fine Art of Technical Writing does make some nice points. Most appealing and useful is the book's premise: though its subject matter can be dry, "technical writing is a creative act." Author Carol Rosenblum Perry likens the technical writer to a ceramist, recommending that he or she get as much down on paper (or computer) as possible for the first draft, then think of that "rough text as a big, shapeless lump of clay" to be sculpted. Next is a more oblique analogy to figurative drawing. Perry urges the technical writer to consider the writing's "skeleton" (order), "body mass" (conciseness), and "muscle tone" (vigor). Finally, technical writing is compared to making music: "Writing, like music, depends on its dynamics ... varying degrees of 'loudness' and 'softness.'"		Blue Heron Publishing	11-02-1991		11-02-2007															Carol Rosenblum Perry		111										
+book							9780596004484	0596004486	us	Version Control with Subversion	Version Control with Subversion				Paperback/ Illustrated		Software Development	$34.95	$18.69		4.5	One of the greatest frustrations in most software projects is version control: the art of managing changes to information. Today's increasingly fast pace of software development--as programmers make small changes to software one day only to undo them the next--has only heightened the problem; consecutive work on code or single-programmer software is a rare sight these days. Without careful attention to version control, concurrent and collaborative work can create more headaches than it solves. This is where Subversion comes into play. Written by members of the Subversion open source development team, Version Control with Subversion introduces the powerful new versioning tool designed to be the successor to the Concurrent Version System or CVS. CVS users will find the "look and feel" Subversion comfortably familiar, but under the surface it's far more flexible, robust, and usable, and more importantly, it improves on CVS's more notable flaws. The book begins with a general introduction to Subversion, the basic concepts behind version control, and a guided tour of Subversion's capabilities and structure. With thorough attention to detail, the authors cover every aspect of installing and configuring Subversion for managing a programming project, documentation, or any other team-based endeavor. Later chapters cover the more complex topics of branching, repository administration, and other advanced features such as properties, externals, and access control. The book ends with reference material and appendices covering a number of useful topics such as a Subversion complete reference and troubleshooting guide. Version Control with Subversion aims to be useful to readers of widely different backgrounds, from those with no previous experience in version control to experienced sysadmins. If you've never used version control, you'll find everything you need to get started in this book. And if you're a seasoned CVS pro, this book will help you make a painless leap into Subversion.		O'Reilly Media	22-06-2004		07-02-2007															C. Michael Pilato/ Ben Collins-Sussman/ Brian W. Fitzpatrick		304										
+book							9780060958404	0060958405	us	Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language	Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language				Paperback		Logic & Language/ Grammar/ Linguistics/ Neuroscience/ Cognitive	$15.00	$3.50		4	Human languages are capable of expressing a literally endless number of different ideas. How do we manage it--so effortlessly that we scarcely ever stop to think about it? In Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, a look at the simple concepts that we use to devise works as complex as love sonnets and tax laws, renowned neuroscientist and linguist Steven Pinker shows us how. The latest linguistic research suggests that each of us stores a limited (though large) number of words and word-parts in memory and manipulates them with a much smaller number of rules to produce every writing and utterance, and Pinker explains every step of the way with engaging good humor./ Pinker's enthusiasm for the subject infects the reader, particularly as he emphasizes the relation between how we communicate and how we think. What does it mean that a small child who has never heard the word wug can tell a researcher that when one wug meets another, there are two wugs? Some rule must be telling the child that English plurals end in -s, which also explains mistakes like mouses. Is our communication linked inextricably with our thinking? Pinker says yes, and it's hard to disagree. Words and Rules is an excellent introduction to and overview of current thinking about language, and will greatly reward the careful reader with new ways of thinking about how we think, talk, and write. --Rob Lightner/ 		Harper Perennial	15-01-2000		03-02-2007															Steven Pinker		368										
+book							9781556434303	1556434308	us	Healing With Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition	Healing With Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition (3rd Edition)			3rd	Paperback		Healthy/ Macrobiotics/ Healing/ Naturopathy/ Family Health/ Diet Therapy/ Whole Foods/ Chinese Medicine/ Healthy Living	$35.00	$22.00		5	Used as a reference by students of acupuncture, this is a hefty, truly comprehensive guide to the theory and healing power of Chinese medicine. It's also a primer on nutrition--including facts about green foods, such as spirulina and blue-green algae, and the "regeneration diets" used by cancer patients and arthritics--along with an inspiring cookbook with more than 300 mostly vegetarian, nutrient-packed recipes./ The information on Chinese medicine is useful for helping to diagnose health imbalances, especially nascent illnesses. It's smartly paired with the whole-foods program because the Chinese have attributed various health-balancing properties to foods, so you can tailor your diet to help alleviate symptoms of illness. For example, Chinese medicine dictates that someone with low energy and a pale complexion (a yin deficiency) would benefit from avoiding bitter foods and increasing "sweet" foods such as soy, black sesame seeds, parsnips, rice, and oats. (Note that the Chinese definition of sweet foods is much different from the American one!)/ Pitchford says in his dedication that he hopes the reader finds "healing, awareness, and peace" from following his program. The diet is certainly acetic by American standards (no alcohol, caffeine, white flour, fried foods, or sugar, and a minimum of eggs and dairy) but the reasons he gives for avoiding these "negative energy" foods are compelling. From the adrenal damage imparted by coffee to immune dysfunction brought on by excess refined sugar, Pitchford spurs you to rethink every dietary choice and its ultimate influence on your health. Without being alarmist, he adds dietary tips for protecting yourself against the dangers of modern life, including neutralizing damage from water fluoridation (thyroid and immune-system problems may result; fluoride is a carcinogen). There's further reading on food combining, female health, heart disease, pregnancy, fasting, and weight loss. Overall, this is a wonderful book for anyone who's serious about strengthening his or her body from the inside out. --Erica Jorgensen/ 		North Atlantic Books	12-02-2002		11-02-2007															Paul Pitchford		750										
+book							9780596002633	0596002637	us	Practical RDF	Practical RDF				Paperback/ Illustrated		XML/ Web Programming/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$39.95	$25.99		3.5	The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a structure for describing and interchanging metadata on the Web--anything from library catalogs and worldwide directories to bioinformatics, Mozilla internal data structures, and knowledge bases for artificial intelligence projects. RDF provides a consistent framework and syntax for describing and querying data, making it possible to share website descriptions more easily. RDF's capabilities, however, have long been shrouded by its reputation for complexity and a difficult family of specifications. Practical RDF breaks through this reputation with immediate and solvable problems to help you understand, master, and implement RDF solutions. Practical RDF explains RDF from the ground up, providing real-world examples and descriptions of how the technology is being used in applications like Mozilla, FOAF, and Chandler, as well as infrastructure you can use to build your own applications. This book cuts to the heart of the W3C's often obscure specifications, giving you tools to apply RDF successfully in your own projects. The first part of the book focuses on the RDF specifications. After an introduction to RDF, the book covers the RDF specification documents themselves, including RDF Semantics and Concepts and Abstract Model specifications, RDF constructs, and the RDF Schema. The second section focuses on programming language support, and the tools and utilities that allow developers to review, edit, parse, store, and manipulate RDF//XML. Subsequent sections focus on RDF's data roots, programming and framework support, and practical implementation and use of RDF and RDF//XML. If you want to know how to apply RDF to information processing, Practical RDF is for you. Whether your interests lie in large-scale information aggregation and analysis or in smaller-scale projects like weblog syndication, this book will provide you with a solid foundation for working with RDF.		O'Reilly Media	07-02-2003		07-02-2007															Shelley Powers		331										
+book							9781556433023	1556433026	us	Cheng Hsin: The Principles of Effortless Power	Cheng Hsin: The Principles of Effortless Power				Paperback		New Age	$16.95	$11.44		4.5	The basic text of one of the geniuses of martial arts in America.		North Atlantic Books	01-02-1999		06-02-2007															Peter Ralston		184										
+book							9781583941591	1583941592	us	Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power	Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power				Paperback		Meditation/ Personal Transformation/ Zen/ Zen Philosophy/ Physical Education	$16.95	$10.51		5	In this inspiring guide, Peter Ralston presents a program of "physical education" for anyone interested in body improvement. Using simple, clear language to demystify the Zen mindset, he draws on more than three decades of experience teaching students and apprentices worldwide who have applied his body-being approach. More of a transformative guide than a specific list of exercises devoted to any particular physical approach, Zen Body-Being explains how to create a state of mental control, enhanced feeling-awareness, correct structural alignment, increased spatial acuity, and even a greater interactive presence. Exercises are simple, often involving feeling-imagery or a kind of meditative awareness that has a profound and sometimes instant effect. Where similar guides teach readers what to do, this challenging book by the man whose insights Dan Millman has said “speak to us all,” teaches readers how to be./ 		North Atlantic Books, Frog Ltd.	27-07-2006		18-02-2007															Peter Ralston/ Laura Ralston		200										
+book							0639785334866	0071377646	us	Schaum's Outline of Chinese Grammar	Schaum's Outline of Chinese Grammar				Paperback		Chinese/ Grammar/ Vocabulary/ Study Guides/ Reference/ Schaum's Outlines	$17.95	$10.15		4.5	Schaum's Outline of Chinese Grammar is designed to assist beginning and intermediate students of Mandarin Chinese develop and enhance their knowledge of Chinese grammar. Chinese morphology can be intimidating to students. By simplifying the learning process, this practical book enriches the student's understanding of the Chinese language./ The accessible summary of the major features of Chinese grammar complete with clear explanations of terms and usage is especially helpful to students. The book features 200 sets of practice exercises as well as Chinese-English and English-Chinese glossaries. It serves as a much-needed supplement to textbooks and class materials currently being used in first-and second-year college-level courses./ 		McGraw-Hill	13-02-2004		11-02-2007															Claudia Ross		304										
+book							9780439784542	0439784549	us	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)		6		Hardcover/ Unabridged		Humorous/ Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic/ Contemporary/ Hardcover/ School	$29.99	$3.45		4.5	The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated, arguably over-hyped Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has arrived, and the question on the minds of kids, adults, fans, and skeptics alike is, "Is it worth the hype?" The answer, luckily, is simple: yep. A magnificent spectacle more than worth the price of admission, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will blow you away. However, given that so much has gone into protecting the secrets of the book (including armored trucks and injunctions), don't expect any spoilers in this review. It's much more fun not knowing what's coming--and in the case of Rowling's delicious sixth book, you don't want to know. Just sit tight, despite the earth-shattering revelations that will have your head in your hands as you hope the words will rearrange themselves into a different story. But take one warning to heart: do not open Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince until you have first found a secluded spot, safe from curious eyes, where you can tuck in for a good long read. Because once you start, you won't stop until you reach the very last page./ A darker book than any in the series thus far with a level of sophistication belying its genre, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince moves the series into murkier waters and marks the arrival of Rowling onto the adult literary scene. While she has long been praised for her cleverness and wit, the strength of Book 6 lies in her subtle development of key characters, as well as her carefully nuanced depiction of a community at war. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, no one and nothing is safe, including preconceived notions of good and evil and of right and wrong. With each book in her increasingly remarkable series, fans have nervously watched J.K. Rowling raise the stakes; gone are the simple delights of butterbeer and enchanted candy, and days when the worst ailment could be cured by a bite of chocolate. A series that began as a colorful lark full of magic and discovery has become a dark and deadly war zone. But this should not come as a shock to loyal readers. Rowling readied fans with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by killing off popular characters and engaging the young students in battle. Still, there is an unexpected bleakness from the start of Book 6 that casts a mean shadow over Quidditch games, silly flirtations, and mountains of homework. Ready or not, the tremendous ending of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will leave stunned fans wondering what great and terrible events await in Book 7 if this sinister darkness is meant to light the way. --Daphne Durham/ Visit the Harry Potter Store/ / Our Harry Potter Store features all things Harry, including books (box sets and collector's editions), audio CDs and cassettes, DVDs, soundtracks, games, and more. 

Begin at the Beginning/ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/ / Hardcover / Paperback/ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets/ / Hardcover/ Paperback/ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban/ / Hardcover/ Paperback/ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire/ / Hardcover/ Paperback/ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix/ / Hardcover/ Paperback/ 
Why We Love Harry
Favorite Moments from the Series
There are plenty of reasons to love Rowling's wildly popular series--no doubt you have several dozen of your own. Our list features favorite moments, characters, and artifacts from the first five books. Keep in mind that this list is by no means exhaustive (what we love about Harry could fill ten books!) and does not include any of the spectacular revelatory moments that would spoil the books for those (few) who have not read them. Enjoy./ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/ / * Harry's first trip to the zoo with the Dursleys, when a boa constrictor winks at him. / * When the Dursleys' house is suddenly besieged by letters for Harry from Hogwarts. Readers learn how much the Dursleys have been keeping from Harry. Rowling does a wonderful job in displaying the lengths to which Uncle Vernon will go to deny that magic exists. / * Harry's first visit to Diagon Alley with Hagrid. Full of curiosities and rich with magic and marvel, Harry's first trip includes a trip to Gringotts and Ollivanders, where Harry gets his wand (holly and phoenix feather) and discovers yet another connection to He-Who-Must-No-Be-Named. This moment is the reader's first full introduction to Rowling's world of witchcraft and wizards./ * Harry's experience with the Sorting Hat./ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets/ / * The de-gnoming of the Weasleys' garden. Harry discovers that even wizards have chores--gnomes must be grabbed (ignoring angry protests "Gerroff me! Gerroff me!"), swung about (to make them too dizzy to come back), and tossed out of the garden--this delightful scene highlights Rowling's clever and witty genius. / * Harry's first experience with a Howler, sent to Ron by his mother. / * The Dueling Club battle between Harry and Malfoy. Gilderoy Lockhart starts the Dueling Club to help students practice spells on each other, but he is not prepared for the intensity of the animosity between Harry and Draco. Since they are still young, their minibattle is innocent enough, including tickling and dancing charms./ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban/ / * Ron's attempt to use a telephone to call Harry at the Dursleys'. / * Harry's first encounter with a Dementor on the train (and just about any other encounter with Dementors). Harry's brush with the Dementors is terrifying and prepares Potter fans for a darker, scarier book. / * Harry, Ron, and Hermione's behavior in Professor Trelawney's Divination class. Some of the best moments in Rowling's books occur when she reminds us that the wizards-in-training at Hogwarts are, after all, just children. Clearly, even at a school of witchcraft and wizardry, classes can be boring and seem pointless to children. / * The Boggart lesson in Professor Lupin's classroom. / * Harry, Ron, and Hermione's knock-down confrontation with Snape./ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire/ / * Hermione's disgust at the reception for the veela (Bulgarian National Team Mascots) at the Quidditch World Cup. Rowling's fourth book addresses issues about growing up--the dynamic between the boys and girls at Hogwarts starts to change. Nowhere is this more plain than the hilarious scene in which magical cheerleaders nearly convince Harry and Ron to jump from the stands to impress them. / * Viktor Krum's crush on Hermione--and Ron's objection to it. / * Malfoy's "Potter Stinks" badge. / * Hermione's creation of S.P.E.W., the intolerant bigotry of the Death Eaters, and the danger of the Triwizard Tournament. Add in the changing dynamics between girls and boys at Hogwarts, and suddenly Rowling's fourth book has a weight and seriousness not as present in early books in the series. Candy and tickle spells are left behind as the students tackle darker, more serious issues and take on larger responsibilities, including the knowledge of illegal curses./ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix/ / / * Harry's outburst to his friends at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. A combination of frustration over being kept in the dark and fear that he will be expelled fuels much of Harry's anger, and it all comes out at once, directly aimed at Ron and Hermione. Rowling perfectly portrays Harry's frustration at being too old to shirk responsibility, but too young to be accepted as part of the fight that he knows is coming. / * Harry's detention with Professor Umbridge. Rowling shows her darker side, leading readers to believe that Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven for young wizards. Dolores represents a bureaucratic tyrant capable of real evil, and Harry is forced to endure their private battle of wills alone. / * Harry and Cho's painfully awkward interactions. Rowling clearly remembers what it was like to be a teenager. / * Harry's Occlumency lessons with Snape. / * Dumbledore's confession to Harry./ / Magic, Mystery, and Mayhem: A Conversation with J.K. Rowling
/ / "I am an extraordinarily lucky person, doing what I love best in the world. I'm sure that I will always be a writer. It was wonderful enough just to be published. The greatest reward is the enthusiasm of the readers."--J.K. Rowling/ Find out more about Harry's creator in our exclusive interview with J.K. Rowling./ 

Did You Know?/ / The Little White Horse was J.K. Rowling's favorite book as a child./ / Jane Austen is Rowling's favorite author./ / Roddy Doyle is Rowling's favorite living writer./ A Few Words from Mary GrandPré
/ / "When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility as an illustrator. J.K. Rowling is very descriptive in her writing--she gives an illustrator a lot to work with. Each story is packed full of rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting, and all the different creatures and people. She makes it easy for me. The images just develop as I sketch and retrace until it feels right and matches her vision." Check out more Harry Potter art from illustrator Mary GrandPré. 
/ 		Scholastic, Inc.	16-07-2005		18-02-2007															J. K. Rowling		672										
+book							9780767900027	0767900022	us	The Illuminated Rumi	The Illuminated Rumi				Hardcover		Middle Eastern/ Inspirational & Religious/ Eastern European/ Mysticism/ Folk Art/ Ancient, Classical & Medieval	$30.00	$13.99		4.5	Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.../ / In the mid-thirteenth century, in a dusty marketplace in Konya, Turkey, a city where Muslim, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist travelers mingled, Jelaluddin Rumi, a popular philosopher and scholar, met Shams of Tabriz, a wandering dervish.  Their meeting forever altered the course of Rumi's life and influenced the mystical evolution of the planet.  The bond they formed was everlasting--a powerful transcendent friendship that would flow through Rumi as some of the world's best-loved ecstatic poetry./ / Rumi's passionate, playful poems find and celebrate sacred life in everyday existence.  They speak across all traditions, to all peoples, and today his relevance and popularity continue to grow.  In The Illuminated Rumi, Coleman Barks, widely regarded as the world's premier translator of Rumi's writings, presents some of his most brilliant work, including many new translations.  To complement Rumi's universal vision, Michael Green has worked the ancient art of illumination into a new, visually stunning form that joins typography, original art, old masters, photographs, and prints with sacred images from around the world./ / The Illuminated Rumi is a truly groundbreaking collaboration that interweaves word and image: a magnificent meeting of ancient tradition and modern interpretation that uniquely captures the spiritual wealth of Rumi's teachings.  Coleman Barks's wise and witty commentary, together with Michael Green's art, makes this a classic guide to the life of the soul for a whole new generation of seekers.		Broadway	13-10-1997		11-02-2007															Jalal Al-Din Rumi		128										
+book							9780140195682	0140195688	us	Sitting: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation	Sitting: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation				Paperback		Rituals & Practice	$12.00	$2.90		4.5			Penguin (Non-Classics)	01-05-1998		03-02-2007															Diana St. Ruth		96										
+book							9780060970796	0060970790	us	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales				Paperback		Doctors & Medicine/ Self-Help & Psychology/ Clinical Psychology/ Neuropsychology/ Mental Illness	$13.00	$0.95		4.5	In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century"(The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents./ If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."/ / 		Harpercollins	01-02-1987		11-02-2007															Oliver W. Sacks		256										
+book							9781590591253	1590591259	us	Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies	Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies				Paperback		Software Development/ Logic	$49.99	$7.43		4.5	Open source has had a profound effect on the Java community. Many Java open source projects have even become de-facto standards. The principal purpose of Enterprise Java Development on a Budget is to guide you through the development of a real enterprise Java application using nothing but open source Java tools, projects, and frameworks./ This book is organized by activities and by particular open source projects that can help you take on the challenges of building the different tiers of your applications. The authors also present a realistic example application that covers most areas of enterprise application development. You'll find information on how to use and configure JBoss, Ant, XDoclet, Struts, ArgoUML, OJB, Hibernate, JUnit, SWT//JFace, and others. Not only will you learn how to use each individual tool, but you'll also understand how to use them in synergy to create robust enterprise Java applications within your budget./ Enterprise Java Development on a Budget combines coverage of best practices with information on the right open source Java tools and technologies, all of which will help support your Java development budget and goals./ 		Apress	10-11-2003		08-02-2007	5		1												Brian Sam-Bodden/ Christopher M. Judd		656										
+book							9780976694069	0976694069	us	Enterprise Integration with Ruby	Enterprise Integration with Ruby				Paperback/ Illustrated		Assembly Language Programming/ Object-Oriented Design	$32.95	$15.50		4.5	Typical enterprises use dozens, hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of applications, components, services, and databases. Many of them are custom built in-house or by third parties, some are bought, others are based on open source projects, and the origin of a few--usually the most critical ones--is completely unknown./ A lot of applications are very old, some are fairly new, and seemingly no two of them were written using the same tools. They run on heterogeneous operating systems and hardware, use databases and messaging systems from various vendors, and were written in different programming languages./ See how to glue these disparate applications together using popular technologies such as:/  • LDAP, Oracle, and MySQL/  • XML Documents and DTDs/  • Sockets, HTTP, and REST/  • XML//RPC, SOAP, and others/  • ...and more./ If you're on the hook to integrate enterprise-class systems together, the tips and techniques in this book will help./ 		Pragmatic Bookshelf	01-04-2006		08-02-2007															Maik Schmidt		330										
+book							0639785413059	0071419837	us	Teach Yourself Beginner's Chinese Script	Teach Yourself Beginner's Chinese Script				Paperback		Chinese/ Phrasebooks - General/ Alphabet/ Reading Skills/ Writing Skills	$10.95	$4.50		3	Now learning non-Roman-alphabet languages is as easy as A-B-C!/ Readers wanting to learn the basics of reading and writing a new language that employs script will find all they need in the Teach Yourself Beginner's Script series. Each book includes a step-by-step introduction to reading and writing in a new language as well as tips and practice exercises to build learners' skills. Thanks to the experts at Teach Yourself, script will no longer be all "Greek" to language learners--unless of course, it is Greek script! Teach Yourself Beginner's Script series books feature:/  • Origins of the language/  • A systematic approach to mastering the script/  • Lots of "hands-on" exercises and activities/  • Practical examples from real-life situations/ 		McGraw-Hill	06-06-2003		11-02-2007															Elizabeth Scurfield/ Song Lianyi		192										
+book							9781590302835	1590302834	us	Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy (Shambhala Classics)	Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy (Shambhala Classics)				Paperback		Zen/ Meditation/ Buddha	$16.95	$9.95		5	Zen Training is a comprehensive handbook for zazen, seated meditation practice, and an authoritative presentation of the Zen path. The book marked a turning point in Zen literature in its critical reevaluation of the enlightenment experience, which the author believes has often been emphasized at the expense of other important aspects of Zen training. In addition, Zen Training goes beyond the first flashes of enlightenment to explore how one lives as well as trains in Zen. The author also draws many significant parallels between Zen and Western philosophy and psychology, comparing traditional Zen concepts with the theories of being and cognition of such thinkers as Heidegger and Husserl.		Shambhala	13-09-2005		06-02-2007															Katsuki Sekida		264										
+book							9781583941454	1583941452	us	Combat Techniques of Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua: Principles and Practices of Internal Martial Arts	Combat Techniques of Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua: Principles and Practices of Internal Martial Arts				Paperback		Taichi	$22.95	$13.20		3.5	The combat techniques of Tai Ji, Ba Gua, and Xing Yi were forbidden during China's Cultural Revolution, but the teachings of grandmaster Wang Pei Shing have survived. This comprehensive guide, written by one of his students, selects core movements from each practice and gives the student powerful tools to recognize the unique strategies and skills, and to develop a deeper understanding, of each style. It contains complete instructions for a 16-posture form to gain mastery of combat techniques. The book helps practitioners achieve a new level of practice, where deeply ingrained skills are brought forth in a more fluid, intuitive, and fast-paced fashion.		Blue Snake Books//Frog, Ltd.	09-02-2006		11-02-2007															Lu Shengli		400										
+book							0752063324547	0672324547	us	HTTP Developer's Handbook	HTTP Developer's Handbook				Paperback		HTML - General	$39.99	$24.97		4.5	HTTP is the protocol that powers the Web. As Web applications become more sophisticated, and as emerging technologies continue to rely heavily on HTTP, understanding this protocol is becoming more and more essential for professional Web developers. By learning HTTP protocol, Web developers gain a deeper understanding of the Web's architecture and can create even better Web applications that are more reliable, faster, and more secure./ The HTTP Developer's Handbook is written specifically for Web developers. It begins by introducing the protocol and explaining it in a straightforward manner. It then illustrates how to leverage this information to improve applications. Extensive information and examples are given covering a wide variety of issues, such as state and session management, caching, SSL, software architecture, and application security./ 		Sams	19-03-2003		07-02-2007															Chris Shiflett		312										
+book							9780517887943	0517887940	us	Feng Shui Step by Step : Arranging Your Home for Health and Happiness--with Personalized Astrological Charts	Feng Shui Step by Step : Arranging Your Home for Health and Happiness--with Personalized Astrological Charts				Paperback		Household Hints/ Psychology & Counseling/ Parapsychology/ Feng Shui	$20.00	$0.01		4	Simons, a feng shui master and astrologer, teaches readers how to feng shui their homes in a clear, step-by-step fashion and gives personalized advice based on readers' dates of birth. Simons presents not only the popular eight-point method but also divining techniques and other authentic Chinese methods that make analysis more complete. Illustrations.		Three Rivers Press	12-11-1996		07-02-2007															T. Raphael Simons		256										
+book							9780380788620	0380788624	us	Cryptonomicon	Cryptonomicon				Paperback		United States/ Contemporary/ Literary/ Historical/ Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue/ Technothrillers/ High Tech/ Paperback/ Action & Adventure	$16.00	$1.95		4	Neal Stephenson enjoys cult status among science fiction fans and techie types thanks to Snow Crash, which so completely redefined conventional notions of the high-tech future that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. But if his cyberpunk classic was big, Cryptonomicon is huge... gargantuan... massive, not just in size (a hefty 918 pages including appendices) but in scope and appeal. It's the hip, readable heir to Gravity's Rainbow and the Illuminatus trilogy. And it's only the first of a proposed series--for more information, read our interview with Stephenson./ Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, cryptanalyst extraordinaire, and gung ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They're part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit's strange workings to Waterhouse. "When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first.... Of course, to observe is not its real duty--we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed.... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious."/ All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes--inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe--team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties./ Cryptonomicon is vintage Stephenson from start to finish: short on plot, but long on detail so precise it's exhausting. Every page has a math problem, a quotable in-joke, an amazing idea, or a bit of sharp prose. Cryptonomicon is also packed with truly weird characters, funky tech, and crypto--all the crypto you'll ever need, in fact, not to mention all the computer jargon of the moment. A word to the wise: if you read this book in one sitting, you may die of information overload (and starvation). --Therese Littleton/ 		Harper Perennial	02-05-2000		07-02-2007															Neal Stephenson		928										
+book							9780887100260	0887100260	us	Fifty-Five T'ang Poems: A Text in the Reading and Understanding of T'Ang Poetry (Far Eastern Publications Series)	Fifty-Five T'ang Poems: A Text in the Reading and Understanding of T'Ang Poetry (Far Eastern Publications Series)				Paperback		Movements & Periods/ Anthologies/ Chinese	$26.00	$24.95		3	Four masters of the shi form of Chinese poetry, who are generally considered to be giants in the entire history of Chinese literature, are represented in this book: three from the eighth century, and one from the ninth. A few works by other well-known poets are also included. The author provides a general background sketch, instruction to the student, a description of the phonological system and the spelling used, as well as an outline of the grammar of T'ang shi, insofar as it is known.		Yale University Press	15-08-2006		11-02-2007															Hugh M. Stimson		256										
+book							9780865681859	0865681856	us	Xing Yi Quan Xue: The Study of Form-Mind Boxing	Xing Yi Quan Xue: The Study of Form-Mind Boxing				Paperback			$21.95	$15.22		4.5	This is the first English language edition of Sun Lu Tang's 1915 classic on xing yi (hsing yi). In addition to the original text and photographs by Sun Lu Tang, a complete biography and additional photos of Master Sun have been added.		Unique Publications	06-02-2000		06-02-2007															Sun Lu Tang		312										
+book							9780596003425	0596003420	us	Learning Unix for Mac OS X	Learning Unix for Mac OS X				Paperback		MacOS/ Macintosh/ Macs/ Linux/ X Windows & Motif	$19.95	$0.01		3	The success of Apple's operating system, Mac OS X, and its Unix roots has brought many new potential Unix users searching for information. The Terminal application and that empty command line can be daunting at first, but users understand it can bring them power and flexibility. Learning Unix for Mac OS X is a concise introduction to just what a reader needs to know to get a started with Unix on Mac OS X. Many Mac users are familiar and comfortable with the easy-to-use elegance of the GUI. With Mac OS X, they now have the ability to not only continue to use their preferred platform, but to explore the powerful capabilities of Unix. Learning Unix for Mac OS X gives the reader information on how to use the Terminal application, become functional with the command interface, explore many Unix applications, and learn how to take advantage of the strengths of both interfaces./ The reader will find all the common commands simply explained with accompanying examples, exercises, and opportunities for experimentation. The book even includes problem checklists along the way to help the reader if they get stuck. The books begins with a introduction to the Unix environment to encourage the reader to get comfortable with the command line. The coverage then expands to launching and configuring the Terminal application--the heart of the Unix interface for the Mac OS X user. The text also introduces how to manage, create, edit, and transfer files. Most everyone using a computer today knows the importance of the internet. And Learning Unix for Mac OS X provides instruction on how to use function such as mail, chat, and web browsing from the command line. A unique challenge for Mac OS X users is printing from the command line. The book contains an entire chapter on how to configure and utilize the various print functions./ The book has been reviewed by Apple for technological accuracy and brandishes the Apple Development Connection (ADC) logo./ 		O'Reilly	05-02-2002		07-02-2007															Dave Taylor/ Jerry Peek		156										
+book							9780974514055	0974514055	us	Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition	Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition				Paperback/ Illustrated		Object-Oriented Design/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$44.95	$20.53		4.5	Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide. Now in its second edition, author Dave Thomas has expanded the famous Pickaxe book with over 200 pages of new content, covering all the new and improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules. The Pickaxe contains four major sections:/  • An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby./  • The definitive reference to the language./  • Complete documentation on all built-in classes, modules, and methods/  • Complete descriptions of all 98 standard libraries./ If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the new and expanded content, including: enhanced coverage of installation, packaging, documenting Ruby source code, threading and synchronization, and enhancing Ruby's capabilities using C-language extensions. Programming for the world-wide web is easy in Ruby, with new chapters on XML//RPC, SOAP, distributed Ruby, templating systems and other web services. There's even a new chapter on unit testing. This is the definitive reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all built-in classes and modules (including more than 250 significant changes since the First Edition). Coverage of other features has grown tremendously, including details on how to harness the sophisticated capabilities of irb, so you can dynamically examine and experiment with your running code. "Ruby is a wonderfully powerful and useful language, and whenever I'm working with it this book is at my side" --Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks		Pragmatic Bookshelf	01-10-2004		07-02-2007															Dave Thomas/ Chad Fowler/ Andy Hunt		828										
+book							9780974514000	0974514004	us	Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS	Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS				Paperback/ Illustrated		Software Development/ Information Systems/ Information Theory	$29.95	$14.35		4	This book is a recipe-based approach to using the CVS Version Control system that will get you up and running quickly--and correctly. All projects need version control: it's a foundational piece of any project's infrastructure. Yet half of all project teams in the U.S. don't use any version control at all. Many others don't use it well, and end up experiencing time-consuming problems. Version Control, done well, is your "undo" button for the project: nothing is final, and mistakes are easily rolled back. With version control, you'll never again lose a good idea because someone overwrote your file edits. You can always find out easily who made what changes to the source code--and why. Version control is a project-wide time machine. Dial in a date and see exactly what the entire project looked like yesterday, last Tuesday, or even last year. This book describes a practical, easy-to-follow way of using CVS, the most commonly used version control system in the world (and it's available for free). Instead of presenting the grand Theory of Version Control and describing every possible option (whether you'd ever use it or not), this book focuses on the practical application of CVS. It builds a set of examples of use that parallel the life of typical projects, showing you how to adopt and then enhance your pragmatic use of CVS. With this book, you can:/  • Keep project all assets (not just source code) safe, and never run the risk of losing a great idea/  • Know how to undo bad decisions--no matter when they were made/  • Learn how to share code safely, and work in parallel for maximum efficiency/  • See how to avoid costly code freezes/  • Manage 3rd party code/ Now there's no excuse not to use professional-grade version control.		The Pragmatic Programmers	09-02-2003		07-02-2007															David Thomas/ Andrew Hunt		161										
+book							7805961006053	0596100604	us	Astronomy Hacks	Astronomy Hacks				Paperback/ Illustrated		Astronomy/ Star-Gazing	$24.95	$13.93		5	Why use the traditional approach to study the stars when you can turn computers, handheld devices, and telescopes into out-of-this-world stargazing tools? Whether you're a first timer or an advanced hobbyist, you'll find Astronomy Hacks both useful and fun. From upgrading your optical finder to photographing stars, this book is the perfect cosmic companion. This handy field guide covers the basics of observing, and what you need to know about tweaking, tuning, adjusting, and tricking out a 'scope. Expect priceless tips and tools for using a Dobsonian Telescope, the large-aperture telescope you can inexpensively build in your garage. Get advice on protocols involved with using electronics including in dark places without ruining the party. Astronomy Hacks begins the space exploration by getting you set up with the right equipment for observing and admiring the stars in an urban setting. Along for the trip are first rate tips for making most of observations. The hacks show you how to:/  • Dark-Adapt Your Notebook Computer/  • Choose the Best Binocular/  • Clean Your Eyepieces and Lenses Safely/  • Upgrade Your Optical Finder/  • Photograph the Stars with Basic Equipment/ The O'Reilly Hacks series has reclaimed the term "hacking" to mean innovating, unearthing, and creating shortcuts, gizmos, and gears. With these hacks, you don't dream it-you do it--and Astronomy Hacks brings space dreams to life. The book is essential for anyone who wants to get the most out of an evening under the stars and have memorable celestial adventures.		O'Reilly Media	17-06-2005		08-02-2007															Robert Bruce Thompson/ Barbara Fritchman Thompson		388										
+book							9780877736752	0877736758	us	The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Shambala Pocket Classics)	The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Shambala Pocket Classics)				Paperback		Motivational/ Book of the Dead (Tibetan)/ Mysticism/ Eastern Philosophy/ Death/ Rituals & Practice	$7.00	$2.56		4.5	In this classic scripture of Tibetan Buddhism—traditionally read aloud to the dying to help them attain liberation—death and rebirth are seen as a process that provides an opportunity to recognize the true nature of mind. This unabridged translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead emphasizes the practical advice that the book offers to the living. The insightful commentary by Chögyam Trungpa, written in clear, concise language, explains what the text teaches us about human psychology. This book will be of interest to people concerned with death and dying, as well as those who seek greater spiritual understanding in everyday life.		Shambhala	13-10-1992		11-02-2007															Chogyam Trungpa		236										
+book							9781592400874	1592400876	us	Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation	Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation				Hardcover		Essays/ Grammar/ Reference/ Writing Skills	$19.95	$1.84		4	A bona fide publishing phenomenon, Lynne Truss's now classic #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes its paperback debut after selling over 3 million copies worldwide in hardcover./ We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species./ In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with. BACKCOVER: Praise for Lynne Truss and Eats, Shoots & Leaves:

Eats, Shoots & Leaves“makes correct usage so cool that you have to admire Ms. Truss.”
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“Witty, smart, passionate.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books Of 2004: Nonfiction 

“Who knew grammar could be so much fun?”
—Newsweek

“Witty and instructive. . . . Truss is an entertaining, well-read scold in a culture that could use more scolding.”
—USA Today“Truss is William Safire crossed with John Cleese's Basil Fawlty.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“Lynne Truss has done the English-speaking world a huge service.”
—The Christian Science Monitor

“This book changed my life in small, perfect ways like learning how to make better coffee or fold an omelet. It's the perfect gift for anyone who cares about grammar and a gentle introduction for those who don't care enough.”
—The Boston Sunday Globe

“Lynne Truss makes [punctuation] a joy to contemplate.”
—Elle

“If Lynne Truss were Roman Catholic I'd nominate her for sainthood.” —Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes

“Truss's scholarship is impressive and never dry.”
—Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review/ 		Gotham	12-04-2004		03-02-2007															Lynne Truss		209										
+book							9780679724346	0679724346	us	Tao Te Ching [Text Only]	Tao Te Ching [Text Only]				Paperback		Taoism/ Tao Te Ching/ Chinese/ Bible & Other Sacred Texts	$9.95	$2.88		4.5	Available for the first time in a handy, easy-to-use size, here is the most accessible and authoritative modern English translation of the ancient Chinese classic. This new Vintage edition includes an introduction and notes by the well-known writer and scholar of philosophy and comparative religion, Jacob Needleman.		Vintage	28-08-1989		11-02-2007															Lao Tsu/ Jane English/ Jacob Needleman		144										
+book							9780844285269	0844285269	us	Easy Chinese Phrasebook & Dictionary	Easy Chinese Phrasebook & Dictionary				Paperback		English (All)/ English (British)/ Chinese/ Conversation/ Phrasebooks - General/ Southeast Asian/ Linguistics	$12.95	$3.00		4.5	Two books in one—a practical phrasebook of essential Chinese vocabulary and expressions, plus a 3,500 English//Chinese dictionary.		McGraw-Hill	07-12-1990		11-02-2007															Yeou-Koung Tung		272										
+book							9780877738510	0877738513	us	Art of Peace (Shambhala Pocket Classics)	Art of Peace (Shambhala Pocket Classics)				Paperback		New Age/ Eastern Philosophy/ Aikido/ Martial Arts	$6.95	$2.59		4.5	These inspirational teachings show that the real way of the warrior is based on compassion, wisdom, fearlessness, and love of nature. Drawn from the talks and writings of Morihei Ueshiba, founder of the popular Japanese martial art known as Aikido, The Art of Peace, presented here in a pocket-sized edition, offers a nonviolent way to victory and a convincing counterpoint to such classics as Musashi's Book of Five Rings and Sun Tzu's Art of War.		Shambhala	10-11-1992		11-02-2007															Morihei Ueshiba/ John Stevens		126										
+book							9780912111476	091211147X	us	Learn to Read Chinese: An Introduction to the Language and Concepts of Current Zhongyi Literature (Learn to Read Chinese)	Learn to Read Chinese: An Introduction to the Language and Concepts of Current Zhongyi Literature (Learn to Read Chinese)				Paperback		Acupuncture & Acupressure/ Chinese/ Southeast Asian/ Linguistics/ Chinese Medicine	$30.00	$17.50			These two volumes teach the language of contemporary Chinese technical literature. The subject matter is Chinese medicine, making these texts ideal for those who wish to learn Chinese from real-world sources. All 128 of the texts chosen are excerpted from the introduction to Chinese medicine written by Qin Bowei, one of the founders of TCM and a medical writer known for his clear, precise and detailed clinical expression. The work is thus a superb supplement for students of Chinese and an effective course of study for clinicians or scholars who wish to read Chinese technical periodicals, papers and texts./ The first volume teaches vocabulary. Each text is an exercise; readers transliterate, then translate a passage based on the simplified character vocabulary provided with each passage and its preceding passages. A completed transliteration in Pinyin and a finished English translation accompany the Chinese. The subject matter provides an exposure to authentic contemporary discussions of the fundamental principles of Chinese medicine./ The second volume teaches analysis of Chinese texts through the principles of Natural Language development. By showing how to identify the basic statement in a sentence and the adjunct statements that complete its meaning, just as children learn to read their native language, the reader is given access to Chinese texts as quickly as is possible. When the course is completed, users are working with typical modern Chinese medical sources./ 		Paradigm Publications (MA)	09-02-1994		11-02-2007															Paul U. Unschuld		2										
+book							9780521777681	0521777682	us	The Elements of Java Style	The Elements of Java Style				Paperback		Object-Oriented Design/ Software Development/ Computers & Internet	$14.99	$2.98		4	The Elements of Java Style, written by renowned author Scott Ambler, Alan Vermeulen, and a team of programmers from Rogue Wave Software, is directed at anyone who writes Java code. Many books explain the syntax and basic use of Java; however, this essential guide explains not only what you can do with the syntax, but what you ought to do. Just as Strunk and White's The Elements of Style provides rules of usage for the English language, this text furnishes a set of rules for Java practitioners. While illustrating these rules with parallel examples of correct and incorrect usage, the authors offer a collection of standards, conventions, and guidelines for writing solid Java code that will be easy to understand, maintain, and enhance. Java developers and programmers who read this book will write better Java code, and become more productive as well. Indeed, anyone who writes Java code or plans to learn how to write Java code should have this book next to his//her computer.		Cambridge University Press	01-02-2000		07-02-2007															Allan Vermeulen/ Scott W. Ambler/ Greg Bumgardner/ Eldon Metz/ Trevor Misfeldt/ Jim Shur/ Alan Vermeulen/ Patrick Thompson		125										
+book							0723812607006	0471463620	us	Java Open Source Programming: with XDoclet, JUnit, WebWork, Hibernate	Java Open Source Programming: with XDoclet, JUnit, WebWork, Hibernate				Paperback		Software Development/ Computers & Internet	$45.00	$1.65		4	The Java language itself is not strictly open-source (Sun has held onto control, albeit with lots of public input). There is, however, a large open-source development community around this highly capable language. Java Open Source Programming describes and provides tutorials on some of the most interesting public Java projects, and is designed to enable a Java programmer (who's worked through the basic language's initial learning curve) to take on more ambitious assignments. The authors generally treat the covered open-source packages as resources to be used, rather than projects to be contributed to, and so it's fair to think of this volume as the "missing manual" for downloaded code. In that spirit, the authors devote many sections to "how to" subjects (addressing, for example, a good way to retrieve stored objects from a database and the procedure for calling an action in XWork)./ Java Open Source Programming takes a bit of a risk by devoting a lot of space to the development of a complex application (an online pet shop), as such a didactic strategy can be hard to follow. The authors pull it off, though, and manage to show that their covered technologies can be used to create a feature-rich and robust application that uses the versatile model-view-controller (MVC) pattern. This book will suit you well if you're planning an MVC Java project and want to take advantage of open-source packages. --David Wall/ Topics covered: The most popular open-source Java packages, particularly those concerned with Web applications and the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern. Specific packages covered include JUnit and Mocks (code testing), Hibernate (persistent storage of objects in databases), WebWork (MVC), SiteMesh (Web page layout), Lucene (site searching), and WebDoclet (configuration file generation)./ 		Wiley	28-11-2003		07-02-2007															Joseph Walnes/ Ara Abrahamian/ Mike Cannon-Brookes/ Patrick A. Lightbody		480										
+book							9780201082593	0201082594	us	Artificial Intelligence Edition (Addison-Wesley series in computer science)	Artificial Intelligence Edition (Addison-Wesley series in computer science)				Paperback		Questions & Answers/ Information Systems	$32.61	$0.01		3.5	This book is one of the oldest and most popular introductions to artificial intelligence. An accomplished artificial intelligence (AI) scientist, Winston heads MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and his hands-on AI research experience lends authority to what he writes. Winston provides detailed pseudo-code for most of the algorithms discussed, so you will be able to implement and test the algorithms immediately. The book contains exercises to test your knowledge of the subject and helpful introductions and summaries to guide you through the material.		Addison-wesley	04-02-1984		08-02-2007															Patrick Henry Winston		527										
+book							9781558605701	1558605703	us	Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia and Information Systems)	Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia and Information Systems)				Hardcover		Storage/ Compression/ Software Development/ Software Project Management/ Electronic Documents/ General & Reference/ Engineering/ Peripherals/ Digital Image Processing/ Qualifying Textbooks - Winter 2007	$74.95	$49.98		4.5	Of all the tasks programmers are asked to perform, storing, compressing, and retrieving information are some of the most challenging--and critical to many applications. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images is a treasure trove of theory, practical illustration, and general discussion in this fascinating technical subject./ Ian Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy Bell have updated their original work with this even more impressive second edition. This version adds recent techniques such as block-sorting, new indexing techniques, new lossless compression strategies, and many other elements to the mix. In short, this work is a comprehensive summary of text and image compression, indexing, and querying techniques. The history of relevant algorithm development is woven well with a practical discussion of challenges, pitfalls, and specific solutions./ This title is a textbook-style exposition on the topic, with its information organized very clearly into topics such as compression, indexing, and so forth. In addition to diagrams and example text transformations, the authors use "pseudo-code" to present algorithms in a language-independent manner wherever possible. They also supplement the reading with mg--their own implementation of the techniques. The mg C language source code is freely available on the Web./ Alone, this book is an impressive collection of information. Nevertheless, the authors list numerous titles for further reading in selected topics. Whether you're in the midst of application development and need solutions fast or are merely curious about how top-notch information management is done, this hardcover is an excellent investment. --Stephen W. Plain/ Topics covered: Text compression models, including Huffman, LZW, and their variants; trends in information management; index creation and compression; image compression; performance issues; and overall system implementation./ 		Morgan Kaufmann	15-05-1999		07-02-2007															Ian H. Witten/ Alistair Moffat/ Timothy C. Bell		519										
+book							9780596101190	0596101198	us	Open Source for the Enterprise: Managing Risks Reaping Rewards	Open Source for the Enterprise: Managing Risks Reaping Rewards				Paperback/ Illustrated		Technical Support/ Programming/ Risks/ Linux	$22.95	$12.50		5	Open source software is changing the world of Information Technology. But making it work for your company is far more complicated than simply installing a copy of Linux. If you are serious about using open source to cut costs, accelerate development, and reduce vendor lock-in, you must institutionalize skills and create new ways of working. You must understand how open source is different from commercial software and what responsibilities and risks it brings. Open Source for the Enterprise is a sober guide to putting open source to work in the modern IT department./ Open source software is software whose code is freely available to anyone who wants to change and redistribute it. New commercial support services, smaller licensing fees, increased collaboration, and a friendlier platform to sell products and services are just a few of the reasons open source is so attractive to IT departments. Some of the open source projects that are in current, widespread use in businesses large and small include Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, JBOSS, and Perl. These have been used to such great effect by Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, and major commercial and financial firms, that a wave of publicity has resulted in recent years, bordering on hype. Large vendors such as IBM, Novell, and Hewlett Packard have made open source a lynchpin of their offerings. Open source has entered a new area where it is being used as a marketing device, a collaborative software development methodology, and a business model./ This book provides something far more valuable than either the cheerleading or the fear-mongering one hears about open source. The authors are Dan Woods, former CTO of TheStreet.com and a consultant and author of several books about IT, and Gautam Guliani, Director of Software Architecture at Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions. Each has used open source software for some 15 years at IT departments large and small. They have collected the wisdom of a host of experts from IT departments, open source communities, and software companies./ Open Source for the Enterprise provides a top to bottom view not only of the technology, but of the skills required to manage it and the organizational issues that must be addressed. Here are the sorts of questions answered in the book:/  • Why is there a "productization gap" in most open source projects?/  • How can the maturity of open source be evaluated?/  • How can the ROI of open source be calculated?/  • What skills are needed to use open source?/  • What sorts of open source projects are appropriate for IT departments at the beginner, intermediate, advanced, and expert levels?/  • What questions need to be answered by an open source strategy?/  • What policies for governance can be instituted to control the adoption of open source?/  • What new commercial services can help manage the risks of open source?/  • Do differences in open source licenses matter?/  • How will using open source transform an IT department?/ Praise for Open Source for the Enterprise: "Open Source has become a strategic business issue; decisions on how and where to choose to use Open Source now have a major impact on the overall direction of IT abilities to support the business both with capabilities and by controlling costs. This is a new game and one generally not covered in existing books on Open Source which continue to assume that the readers are 'deep dive' technologists, Open Source for the Enterprise provides everyone from business managers to technologists with the balanced view that has been missing. Well worth the time to read, and also worth encouraging others in your enterprise to read as well." ----Andy Mulholland - Global CTO Capgemini/ "Open Source for the Enterprise is required reading for anyone working with or looking to adopt open source technologies in a corporate environment. Its practical, no-BS approach will make sure you're armed with the information you need to deploy applications successfully (as well as helping you know when to say "no"). If you're trying to sell open source to management, this book will give you the ammunition you need. If you're a manager trying to drive down cost using open source, this book will tell you what questions to ask your staff. In short, it's a clear, concise explanation of how to successfully leverage open source without making the big mistakes that can get you fired." ----Kevin Bedell - founding editor of LinuxWorld Magazine/ 		O'Reilly Media	27-07-2005		08-02-2007															Dan Woods/ Gautam Guliani		217										
+movie							0786936259223	B00030590I	us	Hero	Hero				DVD		China/ Leung Chiu Wai, Tony/ Jet Li	$19.99	$5.49		4	Master filmmaker Quentin Tarantino presents HERO -- starring martial arts legend Jet Li in a visually stunning martial arts epic where a fearless warrior rises up to defy an empire and unite a nation! With supernatural skill ... and no fear ... a nameless soldier (Jet Li) embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that massacred his people. Now, to achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat! Acclaimed by critics and honored with numerous awards, HERO was nominated for both an Oscar® (2002 Best Foreign Language Film)and Golden Globe!		Miramax	30-11-2004		07-02-2007	5																	Yimou Zhang	Jet Li/ Tony Leung Chiu Wai/ Maggie Cheung/ Ziyi Zhang/ Daoming Chen/ Donnie Yen/ Liu Zhong Yuan/ Zheng Tia Yong/ Yan Qin/ Chang Xiao Yang/ Zhang Ya Kun/ Ma Wen Hua/ Jin Ming/ Xu Kuang Hua/ Wang Shou Xin/ Hei Zi/ Cao Hua/ Li Lei/ Xia Bin/ Peng Qiang/ Zhang Yimou	Closed-captioned/ Color/ Dolby/ Dubbed/ Subtitled/ Widescreen/ NTSC/ 2.35:1	PG-13	27-08-2004	99				
+book							0752064712350	0735712352	us	Cocoon: Building XML Applications	Cocoon: Building XML Applications				Paperback		Software Development/ HTML - General/ XML/ Combinatorics/ jp-unknown1	$39.99	$2.30		4	Cocoon: Building XML Applications is the guide to the Apache Cocoon project. The book contains the much needed documentation on the Cocoon project, but it does not limit itself to just being a developer's handbook. The book motivates the use of XML and XML software (in particular open source software). It contains everything a beginner needs to get going with Cocoon as well as the detailed information a developer needs to develop new and exciting components to extend the XML publishing framework. Although each chapter builds upon the previous ones, the book is designed so that the chapters can also be read as individual guides to the topics they discuss. Varied "hands-on" examples are used to make the underlying concepts and technologies absolutely clear to anyone starting out with Cocoon. Chapters that detail the author's experience in building Internet applications are used to embed Cocoon into the "real world" and complete the picture. [md]Matthew Langham and Carsten Ziegeler		Sams	24-07-2002		07-02-2007															Carsten Ziegeler/ Matthew Langham		504										

data/examples/marc/marc_importer.rb

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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+require 'marc'
+require 'solr'
+
+solr_url = ENV["SOLR_URL"] || "http://localhost:8983/solr"
+marc_filename = ARGV[0]
+file_number = marc_filename.scan(/\d\d/)
+debug = ARGV[1] == "-debug"
+
+$KCODE = 'UTF8'
+
+mapping = {
+  # :solr_field_name => String
+  # :solr_field_name => Array of Strings
+  # :solr_field_name => Proc  [Proc operates on record]
+  #    String = 3 digit control field number or 3 digit data field number + subfield letter
+  
+  :id => '001',
+  :subject_genre_facet => ['600v', '610v', '611v', '650v', '651v', '655a'], 
+  :subject_era_facet => ['650d', '650y', '651y', '655y'],
+  :subject_topic_facet => ['650a', '650b', '650x'],
+  :subject_geographic_facet => ['650c', '650z', '651a', '651x', '651z', '655z'],
+  :year_facet => Proc.new do |r|
+    extract_record_data(r,'260c').collect {|f| f.scan(/\d\d\d\d/)}.flatten
+  end,
+  :title_text => '245a',
+  :author_text => '100a',
+  :call_number_text => '050a',
+  :isbn_text => '010a',
+  :filename_facet => Proc.new {|r| file_number},
+}
+
+connection = Solr::Connection.new(solr_url)
+
+if marc_filename =~ /.gz$/
+  puts "Unzipping data file..."
+  temp_filename = "/tmp/marc_data_#{file_number}.mrc"
+  system("cp #{marc_filename} #{temp_filename}.gz")
+  system("gunzip #{temp_filename}")
+  marc_filename = temp_filename
+end
+
+reader = MARC::Reader.new(marc_filename)
+count = 0
+
+def extract_record_data(record, fields)
+  extracted_data = []
+
+  fields.each do |field|
+    tag = field[0,3]
+    
+    extracted_fields = record.find_all {|f| f.tag === tag}
+
+    extracted_fields.each do |field_instance|    
+      if tag < '010' # control field
+        extracted_data << field_instance.value rescue nil
+      else # data field
+        subfield = field[3].chr
+        extracted_data << field_instance[subfield] rescue nil
+      end
+    end
+  end
+  
+  extracted_data.compact.uniq
+end
+
+puts "Indexing #{marc_filename}..."
+for record in reader
+  doc = {}
+  mapping.each do |key,value|
+    data = nil
+    case value
+      when Proc
+        data = value.call(record)
+        
+      when String, Array
+        data = extract_record_data(record, value)
+        data = nil if data.empty?
+    end
+    
+    doc[key] = data if data
+  end
+  
+  puts doc.inspect,"------" if debug
+
+  connection.send(Solr::Request::AddDocument.new(doc)) unless debug
+  
+  count += 1
+  
+  puts count if count % 100 == 0
+end
+
+connection.send(Solr::Request::Commit.new) unless debug
+puts "Done"

data/examples/tang/tang_importer.rb

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+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+require 'hpricot'
+require 'solr'
+
+solr_url = ENV["SOLR_URL"] || "http://localhost:8983/solr"
+debug = ARGV[1] == "-debug"
+
+solr = Solr::Connection.new(solr_url)
+
+html = Hpricot(open(ARGV[0]))
+max = 320
+
+def next_blockquote(elem)
+  elem = elem.next_sibling
+  until elem.name == "blockquote" do
+    elem = elem.next_sibling
+  end
+  
+  elem
+end
+
+for current_index in (1..max) do
+  section_start = html.at("//blockquote[text()='#{format('%03d',current_index)}']")
+  type_zh = next_blockquote(section_start)
+  author_zh = next_blockquote(type_zh)
+  title_zh = next_blockquote(author_zh)
+  body_zh = next_blockquote(title_zh)
+  
+  type_en = next_blockquote(body_zh)
+  author_en = next_blockquote(type_en)
+  title_en = next_blockquote(author_en)
+  body_en = next_blockquote(title_en)
+  doc = {:type_zh_facet => type_zh, :author_zh_facet => author_zh, :title_zh_text => title_zh, :body_zh_text => body_zh,
+         :type_en_facet => type_en, :author_en_facet => author_en, :title_en_text => title_en, :body_en_text => body_en
+        }
+  doc.each {|k,v| doc[k] = v.inner_text}
+  doc[:id] = current_index    # TODO: namespace the id, something like "etext_tang:#{current_index}"
+  doc[:source_facet] = 'etext_tang'
+  doc[:language_facet] = ['chi','eng']
+
+  puts "----",doc[:id],doc[:title_en_text],doc[:author_en_facet],doc[:type_en_facet]
+#  puts doc.inspect if debug
+  solr.add doc unless debug
+end
+
+solr.commit unless debug
+#solr.optimize unless debug

data/lib/solr.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+module Solr; end
+require 'solr/exception'
+require 'solr/request'
+require 'solr/connection'
+require 'solr/response'
+require 'solr/util'
+require 'solr/xml'
+require 'solr/importer'
+require 'solr/indexer'

data/lib/solr/connection.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+require 'net/http'
+
+# TODO: add a convenience method to POST a Solr .xml file, like Solr's example post.sh
+
+class Solr::Connection
+  attr_reader :url, :autocommit, :connection
+
+  # create a connection to a solr instance using the url for the solr
+  # application context:
+  #
+  #   conn = Solr::Connection.new("http://example.com:8080/solr")
+  #
+  # if you would prefer to have all adds/updates autocommitted, 
+  # use :autocommit => :on
+  #
+  #   conn = Solr::Connection.new('http://example.com:8080/solr', 
+  #     :autocommit => :on)
+
+  def initialize(url="http://localhost:8983/solr", opts={})
+    @url = URI.parse(url)
+    unless @url.kind_of? URI::HTTP
+      raise "invalid http url: #{url}"
+    end
+  
+    # TODO: Autocommit seems nice at one level, but it currently is confusing because
+    # only calls to Connection#add/#update/#delete, though a Connection#send(AddDocument.new(...))
+    # does not autocommit.  Maybe #send should check for the request types that require a commit and
+    # commit in #send instead of the individual methods?
+    @autocommit = opts[:autocommit] == :on
+  
+    # Not actually opening the connection yet, just setting up the persistent connection.
+    @connection = Net::HTTP.new(@url.host, @url.port)
+    
+    @connection.read_timeout = opts[:timeout] if opts[:timeout]
+  end
+
+  # add a document to the index. you can pass in either a hash
+  #
+  #   conn.add(:id => 123, :title => 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius')
+  #
+  # or a Solr::Document
+  #
+  #   conn.add(Solr::Document.new(:id => 123, :title = 'On Writing')
+  #
+  # true/false will be returned to designate success/failure
+
+  def add(doc)
+    request = Solr::Request::AddDocument.new(doc)
+    response = send(request)
+    commit if @autocommit
+    return response.ok?
+  end
+
+  # update a document in the index (really just an alias to add)
+
+  def update(doc)
+    return add(doc)
+  end
+
+  # performs a standard query and returns a Solr::Response::Standard
+  #
+  #   response = conn.query('borges')
+  # 
+  # alternative you can pass in a block and iterate over hits
+  #
+  #   conn.query('borges') do |hit|
+  #     puts hit
+  #   end
+  #
+  # options include:
+  # 
+  #   :sort, :default_field, :rows, :filter_queries, :debug_query,
+  #   :explain_other, :facets, :highlighting, :mlt,
+  #   :operator         => :or / :and
+  #   :start            => defaults to 0
+  #   :field_list       => array, defaults to ["*", "score"]
+
+  def query(query, options={}, &action)
+    # TODO: Shouldn't this return an exception if the Solr status is not ok?  (rather than true/false).
+    create_and_send_query(Solr::Request::Standard, options.update(:query => query), &action)
+  end
+  
+  # performs a dismax search and returns a Solr::Response::Standard
+  #
+  #   response = conn.search('borges')
+  # 
+  # options are same as query, but also include:
+  # 
+  #   :tie_breaker, :query_fields, :minimum_match, :phrase_fields,
+  #   :phrase_slop, :boost_query, :boost_functions
+
+  def search(query, options={}, &action)
+    create_and_send_query(Solr::Request::Dismax, options.update(:query => query), &action)
+  end
+
+  # sends a commit message to the server
+  def commit(options={})
+    response = send(Solr::Request::Commit.new(options))
+    return response.ok?
+  end
+
+  # sends an optimize message to the server
+  def optimize
+    response = send(Solr::Request::Optimize.new)
+    return response.ok?
+  end
+  
+  # pings the connection and returns true/false if it is alive or not
+  def ping
+    begin
+      response = send(Solr::Request::Ping.new)
+      return response.ok?
+    rescue
+      return false
+    end
+  end
+
+  # delete a document from the index using the document id
+  def delete(document_id)
+    response = send(Solr::Request::Delete.new(:id => document_id))
+    commit if @autocommit
+    response.ok?
+  end
+
+  # delete using a query
+  def delete_by_query(query)
+    response = send(Solr::Request::Delete.new(:query => query))
+    commit if @autocommit
+    response.ok?
+  end
+  
+  def info
+    send(Solr::Request::IndexInfo.new)
+  end
+  
+  # send a given Solr::Request and return a RubyResponse or XmlResponse
+  # depending on the type of request
+  def send(request)
+    data = post(request)
+    Solr::Response::Base.make_response(request, data)
+  end
+
+  # send the http post request to solr; for convenience there are shortcuts
+  # to some requests: add(), query(), commit(), delete() or send()
+  def post(request)
+    response = @connection.post(@url.path + "/" + request.handler,
+                                request.to_s,
+                                { "Content-Type" => request.content_type })
+  
+    case response
+    when Net::HTTPSuccess then response.body
+    else
+      response.error!
+    end
+  
+  end
+  
+private
+  
+  def create_and_send_query(klass, options = {}, &action)
+    request = klass.new(options)
+    response = send(request)
+    return response unless action
+    response.each {|hit| action.call(hit)}
+  end
+  
+end