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The liver is a large organ that sits in the right upper abdomen, just under the right lung. It is one of the body's most 'intelligent' organs in that it performs so many different functions at the same time. The liver makes proteins, eliminates waste material from the body, produces cholesterol, stores and releases glucose energy and metabolises many drugs used in medicine. It also produces bile that flows through bile ducts into the intestine where it helps to digest food. This organ also has the ability to regenerate itself if it is injured or partially removed. Cirrhosis is scarring of the liver that involves the formation of fibrous (scar) tissue associated with the destruction of the normal architecture of the organ. Many types of chronic injury to the liver can result in scar tissue. This scarring distorts the normal structure and re-growth of liver cells. The flow of blood through the liver from the intestine is blocked and the work done by the liver, such as processing drugs or producing proteins, is hindered. Until recently, the most common cause of cirrhosis of the liver in the United States was attributed to alcohol abuse.Because of the rapid increase of hepatitis C virus infection, hepatitis C has now taken over first place (26 per cent), with alcohol abuse falling to second place, but only slightly behind at 21 per cent. This outstanding book elucidates new and important research results from throughout the world. ... Read more

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Chapters: Steve Wigley, Kevin Dillon, Gary Waddock, Terry Brown, Jason Dodd, Martin Kuhl, Steve Wignall. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Senior club appearances and goalscounted for the domestic league only.* Appearances (Goals) Steve Wigley (born 15 October 1961) is an English football coach and former player for Nottingham Forest, Sheffield United, Birmingham City, Portsmouth and Exeter City. He made 340 appearances in the Football League. He is the former manager of Southampton and currently works for Hull City as a coach. Born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Wigley earned a reputation as a tricky winger for home-town club Curzon Ashton, jinking his way through defences and dazzling crowds with his skilful ball displays. It was this that attracted Brian Clough who promptly signed him for Nottingham Forest. After making his debut as a 21-year-old, Wigley played 82 times for Forest before moving to Sheffield United in 1985. Unfortunately, he never found success in Sheffield and moved to Birmingham City soon after, where during a spectacular display against Portsmouth F.C., Pompey manager Alan Ball was persuaded to sign him for the club. After spending four years of mixed fortunes on the South Coast, helping Portsmouth to the 1992 FA Cup semi final where they lost on a penalty shootout to Liverpool, Wigley moved to Exeter to finish his playing career before taking on his first managerial job at Aldershot. Wigley was appointed as manager of Aldershot Town after the departure of Steve Wignall. The Shots were by this time in the Isthmian League first division but failed to achieve promotion under Wigley's leadership, finishing 4th, 5th and finally 7th in his three year period with the club. To this day, Wigley has the dubious honour of being Aldershot Town...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=928987 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Hampshire Business Review, published by Thomson Gale on May 25, 2007. The length of the article is 1182 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Q&A with ... airport director Kevin Dillon.(Interview)
Author: Jack Kenny
Publication: New Hampshire Business Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 25, 2007
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Volume: 29Issue: 11Page: 5(1)

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This digital document is an article from New Hampshire Business Review, published by Business Publications, Inc. on November 17, 2000. The length of the article is 792 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Airport gives the state a 'grand' first impression.(Brief Article)
Author: Kevin A. Dillon
Publication: New Hampshire Business Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 17, 2000
Publisher: Business Publications, Inc.
Volume: 22Issue: 25Page: 19

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CREATOR'S JAM ON SUPER-TEEN-TEAM!Date: November 1996 to July 1998Highlights: THE COMPLETE SERIES RUN!*** Contains Issue #'s 1-20,Annual 1 *** ... Read more

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Oracle Corporation has broadened its development platform, integrating open standards such as Java and XML into the heart of the Oracle 8i database. This extended programming environment continues to exploit the qualities of scalability, reliability and efficiency of the world's most successful data management software, but at the same time it provides new challenges and opportunities to programmers.

This book shows you how to develop enterprise PL/SQL applications exploiting Java and XML, and how technologies such as EJBs can be moved to the 8i database. You'll work through case studies using a mix of both familiar and unfamiliar tools and languages, showing you how the various programming approaches can enhance each other. Amazon.com Review
Suitable for any developer or manager who works on the Oracle platform, Professional Oracle 8i Application Programming with Java, PL/SQL, and XML is an excellent guide to the tools and programming techniques you'll need for successful enterprise development using today's Oracle.

Unless you buy an armful of books on current Oracle tools and technologies, you won't likely find as comprehensive a tour as this. First off, the authors are masters at using Oracle tools for high-end enterprise development, including PL/SQL (its proprietary SQL language) and Java. Developers and IT managers will appreciate the clear descriptions of relevant tools in the Oracle arsenal (including Developer and JDeveloper). Business Components for Java (BC4J), which simplify the use of Enterprise JavaBeans with Oracle databases and JSP, are also explained succinctly.

The emphasis is on server-side programming, with all features supported in Oracle, like stored procedures (and objects), written in both PL/SQL and Java. This book excels at showing the nitty-gritty details, with screen shots revealing the actual Oracle tools in action. As for using Enterprise JavaBeans, readers learn two possible methods: with standard EJB, and with BC4J components created with JDeveloper. A sample for a restaurant finder application will help you try your hand at using both approaches.

The discussion of Oracle's extensive XML support, which will be useful for taking advantage of this popular standard for real-world projects, is very strong. (Material on the emerging Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and WML built with XML/XLST brings the book absolutely up to date.) A longer case study provides an ambitious example of enterprise Oracle at work. This Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system (with support for call centers) demonstrates a true n-tiered architecture built around Oracle.

For developers and IT managers alike, this authoritative tour on the best of the Oracle platform is really a must-have for anyone serious about development. It proves not only that Oracle is a great database platform, but also that it's ready to run the entire enterprise through powerful Internet and component-based tools. --Richard Dragan

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• History of Oracle
• Introduction to PL/SQL
• Overview of Oracle tools (including Forms, Reports, Portal, Designer, Oracle 8i, and JDeveloper)
• SQLJ and JavaServer Pages (JSP)
• Enterprise JavaBeans on the Oracle platform
• XML support in Oracle
• Enterprise Application Design (EAD) and n-tiered architectures on the Oracle platform
• Oracle database fundamentals (including data dictionaries, indices, and object/relational design)
• Oracle Net8 for scalability
• Designer 6i (case study for an online course-registration database)
• PL/SQL tutorial (including PL/SQL Server Pages and the Web Toolkit for Web programming)
• Case study for an online stock-tracker application
• Java stored procedures
• JDBC tutorial (including APIs, binary fields, connection pooling, and caching)
• SQLJ tutorial
• Introduction to EJB
• Oracle performance tuning
• Oracle Business Components for Java (BC4J)
• Case study for a discussion database using PL/SQL and Java
• Search engines with Oracle interMedia
• XML fundamentals and Oracle
• Case study for a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) enterprise system
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Customer Reviews (10)

Confused ramble though Oracle
The best thing that can be said about this book is it's a confused ramble though Oracle. The book tries to cover Java, PL/SQL and XML, and fails to cover any depth in any of these subjects.

From Stem to Stern
Some other reviewers have stated that this book is uneven in quality.I agree with that assessment but argue that is unavoidable.I cannot think of any one person who possesses the knowledge to write intelligently about all of this material in the depth this book has.

In a few areas it is dated (obviously 9i is out NOW, but wasn't when this book was published), but it is still overall extremely valuable.I have had my copy for about a year now and have read it almost completely once (you can't read a 1200 page tech book cover to cover) and have referred to it in a pinch more times than I can remember.

In short, a must have for any serious Oracle developer.

Good book but not for beginner
Good book, but goes more detail into
tools provided by Oracle. If you will be using
only oracle tools, this is a good book.

A tour of Oracle technologies
To produce this book, Wrox took twenty expert Oracle developers and had each of them write about their area of expertise. The result is that whether you are a manager, a developer, or a DBA, if you are working with Oracle 8i this book should be on your desk. This book covers virtually every topic that you need to understand about the Oracle 8i development platform. It does not cover each topic completely but it provides a thorough and in most cases sufficient introduction on each topic. For a particular topic of interest you may need an additional book but to get all the information found in this book you would need ten volumes at least. The book opens with an introduction to Oracle 8i and some of its components including Net8 (Oracle's network solution) and Designer 6i (Oracle's development environment). The next section covers PL/SQL and PSP (this is similar to JSP). This is followed by an extensive section covering Java. This section covers JDBC, SQLJ, EJB, and interMedia (Oracle's powerful search tool). The last section covers XML and includes information on DOM and SAX parsers, SOAP, XSL, XSQL, and more. Extensive case studies are scattered throughout the book. Examples show how to use Oracle tools such as BC4J to develop enterprise applications. The book even includes primers on Java and XML. As a tour of all the features of Oracle 8i, this book is without competition.

Excellent Book.
This is an excellent book as it covers a lot of ground in one volume. If you work in a organisation that has Oracle as the engine for their web based applications, you must have this book.
Many books cover Java or XML or SQL and the like; but this is one of the few books that delves into HOW to put all of these together to make it work! As this book is released in newer additions, I shall be buying it as soon as it is available. ... Read more

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Director has long been established as the premier multimedia authoring tool.Version 8 brought closer web focus. With the upgrade to 8.5, Director has become an important Flash compatible 3D development tool. This integration of two of Macromedia's most exciting graphics tools, as well as including a sophisticated 3D modelling environment means that Director 8.5 is not a half-version so much as a rapid response to a burgeoning and demanding market.

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Good ratio between theory and practise !
I've used Director for 5 years and i found this book full of good examples. I found the Object Oriented Programming chapter so exciting...Probably one of the best book on Director i've read (i'm waiting for Gary's new Book - Using Macromedia Director 8.5).
Buy it, non ve ne pentirete !
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The juice.
This is awesome! I've used Director for 2 years and was really excited about the new 3D features in 8.5 but thought I'd have to spend months learning how to use the engine. In 1 week of reading this I made my first user activated 3D projector that plays sound relational to my world.

I know why this book is so good: I looked at these guys sites in the front of the book for these authors - these guys really know how to create. Examples are inspirations!

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The Looking Glass is a collection of art inspired by Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. With over 30 illustrations by 17 talented artists, this book is an explosion of vivid color and striking imagery. Gaze as each artist guides you down the rabbit hole and through their whimsical visions of wonderland. Read small biographies on all the contributing artists and find out what makes them tick. Will you be able to answer "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" You may just find that answer in... The Looking Glass. ... Read more

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Three stars for hilarity !!!
I was very conflicted as how to rate this book because if you are reading this book in order to gain an indepth sociological perspective of interracial relationships than this is definetly not the book to read.The author is too immature and uneducated to be able to look at his relationship in the clutural historicaland psychological perspective that many readers would like.While the author would like his reader to think that his relationship is symbolic of all interracial relationships we as readers know that there are many happy functunal interracial couples who are very happy. The only reason I give this book three stars is that it had a certain Jerry Springer quaility to it. I mean all the drama in this man life with women bordered on absurdity. There were some points where I was laughing out loud when he would make one of his stereotypical statements about Black Women or White Women. It was so hilarous that at the grand old age of twenty three this man who has lived in one city all his life is suddenly a bigger expert on white women than Jane Goodall is on Chimps.So I give it the three stars for its sheer hilarity of which I think the author had no intent.

Don't waste your money or time with this one
Kevin spent 214 pages and 21 chapters to let us know that he is a very self-absorbed, immature, whining, blaming fool who can't make up his mind about his feelings for the women in his life, let alone what he wants in a woman/partner. I suppose its because he does most of his thinking with that part of his male anatomy that has neither a brain nor sensibility.
I hope that in the five years since the book was written he has grown up, made some decisions about the direction he wants to go, and commitments to stand by his beliefs. If not, I'm sorry for the women, black and white, that come into his life. This book does NOT examine the social and psychological elements of interracial relationships, it only examines the author's slanted experience with it. Kevin, stop blaming the mores of our society for your inability to make a committment and stick to it.

Enlightening
I found this book to be highly enjoyable from beginning to end though it only confirmed what I already believed to be true in the black man's pursuit of/relationship with the white woman.

Crawl in His Head!
I think that any time a man is being open, honest and no holds barred about his feelings, women need to listen. This book wasn't meant to be entertaining...it's a true story. The man cheated, repented and in the end still lost the best woman for the job! That had to be a blow. I found the book interesting, lies and deceit uncovered...it's a relationship manual ladies! Read this book.

Poignant view from man finding himself.
I read an excerpt from this book about two or three years ago in Essence magazine.I remember at the time I was curious about what kind of book Mr. Luttery could write about involving the regret and demise of an interracial relationship.He went into the relationship willingly , right, so why the sob story?Well, I see now that the excerpt didn't begin to tell the story.

The author very tenderly and methodically tells his story of entering into an interracial relationship with a young white woman.He tells of the pain and guilt and miscommunication that led to this relationship coming out of a relationship with a black woman he deeply cared for.He tells of the reluctance, the shame, the misgivings, but also of the deep feelings and satisfaction of this union.Some reviewers have criticized the author as generalizing blacks and white women.In his defense I will say that at the time he was involved with this young woman he was only twenty-three and twenty-four years old, not long out of college, beginning his manhood although he was very mature for his age.He had goals in his personal and career lives and seemed to know what he wanted in a relationship.However, I think because of his age that some of the anguish he went through may have been handled better had he been say about thirty years old. Going to purchase his first new car at twenty-three and all the drama that went with that was a turning point in his relationship.That is not to take away from his anger or pain at finding out his love could not and did not want to share his pain.The feelings are very real and perhaps too many interracial couples feel that because of the prolific nature of interracial relationships and the tolerance of such, that race is notan issue and needs not be addressed in the relationship.The catch-all, "but we're just people, I don't see color" is like being the ostrich with his head in the sand. It has to be acknowleged and addressed.

This book is well-written with beautiful detail and word painting that gives a nonfiction work a novel approach.But remember, this is one black man's story of his coming to grips of what an interracial relationship cost him and for him the price was too high.To be able to express these feelings, looking into his inner self, to write and show the world his shortcomings and imperfections is to be applauded.I love his writing and eagerly await his next work. ... Read more

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Complete with color photos and maps, a detailed look at the Middle Eastern nation examines the impact of Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, its relations with the world, and its future ties with the United States. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Church and State, published by J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State on March 22, 2001. The length of the article is 529 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Catholic Identity: Balancing Reason, Faith, and Power.(Review)
Author: Kevin B. Fagan
Publication: Journal of Church and State (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State
Volume: 43Issue: 2Page: 350

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