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Big If
Integrating Flash, Fireworks & Freehand
Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming
An Underground Education
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars
Slumdog Millionaire
War Of The Worlds
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Big If: Mark Costello(W. W. Norton & Company) "Big If" is a book from a secret service agent of 10 years, having already graced shelves with Bag Men (under the psuedonym of John Flood).
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Integrating Flash, Fireworks & Freehand: Joyce J. Evans(Coriolis) In this economic climate, where web people are expected to flit between different programmes with ease, it is hard to know each one to such depth and this is a very useful reference book.
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Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming: Robin Dewson(Wrox) There is a bit of a give away in the title of this book as to what it's about, and for whom it is designed. Which is very useful, as if it had been called "My Life as an Astronaut", it may not have… well, you get the point.
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An Underground Education: Richard Zacks(Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group) This book professes to teach you everything you need to know about art, sex, business, crime, science, medicine, and other fields of human knowledge. Quite a claim. It does however manage to succeed, albeit in not the most enthralling style (presumably it doesn't teach absolutely everything).
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht(Chronicle Books) My granddad used to say that if you hadn’t wrestled a shark you hadn't lived. Of course, he hadn't. He never quite saw the irony. Had he read this little gem, he would have been fully prepared to do the deed if and when it arose.
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Flash 5 ActionScript Studio: David Beard, Michael Bedar, et al(Friends of ED) When Flash 5.0 was released designers realised that now was the time to think more like programmers. Oh, dear.
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The Joy of Linux: A Gourmet Guide to Open Source: Brian Proffitt and Michael Hall(Prima Tech) The Joy of Linux? Can joy be gained from an operating system, or is that just a nerdy fantasy? Well I'm yet to be convinced.
El-Camel's ratings: ARSE
Beginning SQL Programming: John Kauffman, et al.(Wrox Press Ltd) One of the authors (Kevin Spencer) thinks a better title would be 'beginning to end SQL Programming', and I'm inclined to agree with him.
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A Star Called Henry: Roddy Doyle(Random House) IN this hugely ambitious work, the first of a planned trilogy, Roddy Doyle attempts the story of twentieth Century Ireland through the eyes of one man, Henry Smart. The character of Henry's father, a one-legged whorehouse bouncer provides the family blueprint and his role as a killer for hire is echoed - though under the more legitimate, political-assassination
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Spawn: Bloodfeud: Alan Moore, with Tony Daniel and Kevin Conrad(Titan Books) FOR the uninitiated, the story so far… "Spawn is the tale of a man called Al Simmons who died working for the US government as an assassin. Al sells his soul to the devil - Malebolgia - so he can get a second chance back on Earth and see his wife Wanda. It's a trick, and Al returns to Earth five years in the future as a Hellspawn: a warrior for the forces of hell.
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