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"The Travels of Sir John Mandeville" was one of the most popular books of the later Middle Ages. Purporting to describe the circumnavigation of an English knight through Africa, India, and the Middle East in 1322, the narrative is a fantastical collection of sights: seas, islands, phoenixes, pyramids, rocks that enchant ships and apes that contain human souls, interwoven with geographical descriptions that are perfectly accurate. Matthew Francis' new collection is a sequence of poems that celebrate and give voice to Mandeville, in his own words, caught as he is between physical and symbolic geographies, between a world that is round and one that has Jerusalem at its centre. And all of it narrated in the terse, solitary, conflicted and strangely passionate voice of this medieval Crusoe whose very existence was disputed. ... Read more

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Huckleberry Finn's adventurous journey along the Mississippi is captured in this adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel. It thrives on the use of minimal set and prop devices to illustrate the many locations. ... Read more

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Common to many bacteria is the ability to establish a symbiotic relationship or to evade innate immune responses of an animal, plant, fish or insect host. Most often this capacity is mediated by a type III secretion system (T3SS). The function of these complex molecular machines is likened to a syringe-needle injection device that is dedicated to the translocation of effector proteins directly into target eukaryotic cells. Unlike traditional molecular chaperones, these specialised type III chaperon do not assist in protein folding and are not energised by ATP. Controversy still surrounds their primary role; as bodyguards to prevent premature aggregation or as pilots to direct substrate secretion through the correct T3SS. Moreover, some chaperones display a bewildering propensity to interact with several additional T3S-associated proteins - the relevance of which remains uncertain. Structural data has now appeared for several important type III chaperones, either alone or in complex with their cognate substrate. ... Read more

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The author populates his second collection with dragons, devils, butterflies, an ornamental hermit, a forest god and a whole ocean full of creatures from whales and cuttlefish to the denizens of deep-sea hydrothermal vents. But strangest of all are the human beings. ... Read more

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Chapters: Jack Dyer, Royce Hart, Kevin Sheedy, Ian Stewart, Francis Bourke, Matthew Richardson, Vic Thorp, Jack Titus, Maurice Rioli, Roy Wright, Kevin Bartlett, Brett Deledio, Matthew Knights, Dale Weightman, Wayne Campbell, Mark Coughlan, Kane Johnson, Dan Minogue, Bill Morris, Charlie Ricketts, Chris Bond, Joel Bowden, Kevin Morris, Nick Daffy, Geoff Raines, Martin Bolger, Darren Gaspar, Neville Crowe, Des Rowe, Hugh James, Barry Rowlings, Michael Pickering, Andrew Kellaway, Craig Lambert, Bill Barrot, Alan Geddes, Dave Cuzens, William Mahoney, Barney Herbert, Paul Broderick, Bill Wilson, Mark Lee, Mel Morris, Maurie Hunter, Thomas O'halloran, Tony Free, Basil Mccormack, Trevor Poole, Ron Branton, Leo Merrett, Ray Martin, Geoff Spring, Havel Rowe, Ron Durham, Laurie Sharp, Sid Reeves, Artie Bettles. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 196. 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: 312 Games, 443 Goals John Raymond Dyer senior OAM (13 November 1913 23 August 2003) (Richmond supporters favourite player), always known as Jack Dyer, was one of the colossal figures of Australian rules football during two distinct careers, firstly as an outstanding player and coach of the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League between 1931 and 1952, and later in the broadcast media for more than four decades. During his lengthy career, he came to symbolise not just the Richmond club but the entire working class area of Richmond during the privations of the Great Depression and World War II. His genial nature shone through in his media work, which he began after resigning from the coaching position at Richmond. Dyer, along with ex-Collingwood captain Lou Richards, became a pioneer of television commentating on Australian football after the medium was introduced to the country in 1956. Combining te...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=304157 ... Read more

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Along with JMW Turner, Francis Bacon (1909-92) is regarded internationally as Britain's greatest painter. Drawing on low-art sources, including photographs torn from magazines and imagery from films, coupled with a keen awareness of the rich historical tradition of painting stretching back to the renaissance, he developed a way of portraying the human body that was unique in the history of painting. Beginning his public career in 1944 with Three Studies for Figures at the Base of the Crucifixion he depicted human beings usually in isolation, at moments of extreme tension or even pain, distorted like figures from a nightmare fantasy."I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them", he once said, "like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events as the snail leaves its slime". For many contemporary critics, Bacon's bleakly existential outlook, coupled with his flamboyant homosexuality and colourful private life, made him a controversial figure. Nevertheless his mastery of the medium of paint by this self-taught artist was recognised relatively early, and in 1962 he had a retrospective exhibition at Tate.In 1985, on the occasion of another exhibition, the then Director of Tate remarked that Bacon was surely "the greatest living painter; no artist in our century has presented the human predicament with such insight and feeling".Towards the end of the first decade of a new century it is time to re-assess the achievement of this unique artist, whose style was so personal and distinctive that his influence lay more in his commitment to art itself than in any stylistic legacy. Can a painter still be seen as vital in the digital age? Do Bacon's tortured, despairing figures still speak to the human condition? It might be that for the contemporary viewer, Bacon's imagery appears to have foreshadowed the scenes that have filled our newspapers and television screens in recent years. Leading expert on international modern art Matthew Gale and renowned expert on British art Chris Stephens are joined by other international critics in a radical reassessment of Bacon's position for the twenty-first century. ... Read more

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NO fat Bacon
the Francis Bacon book edited by Gale and Stephens is full of insights, images and information I didn't know about Francis Bacon.The text is well organized and recommended for the beginning seeking knowledge about Bacon.The Book makes Bacon accessible to non-art historians and enough insider for art groupies.

A great artist, an average (sometimes pretentious) book
This is the catalogue for the current exhibition held at the Tate gallery in London (the first major retrospective on the artist in England since 1985) and which will later go to the Prado in Madrid and the Met in NYC.

The book starts with six essays that, in a way, sum up everything that has been written or said about Bacon over the past fifty years.

The first, entitled "On the margin of the impossible", attempts to show how Bacon's ambition (which was to finish either "at the National Gallery or in the dustbin") and creative process (towards paintings that are neither abstract nor figurative, but hover between both forms of art to reach a new, deeper reality than that of the mere representational figure)make him difficult to pigeonhole in a classical history of movements in modern art.

The second essay dwells on the artist's critical reception during and after his lifetime and shows how European critics were quick to grasp the importance of the artist whereasAmericans were much slower (Bacon's reputation in the US only started to grow in the 1960's, even though the Moma had been the first museum to buy one of his paintings in 1946). Over the years, the names of John Russell, David Sylvester, Michel Leiris, Gilles Deleuze and Michael Peppiatt stand out as major proponents of Bacon's art.

The third essay studies Bacon's paintings as such, emphasizing the problems of interpretation, explaining their sources and stressing the importance of chance in the creative process (what Deleuze and Bacon himself used to call "the accident", a term also present in the art ofphotography, so important to Bacon).

The fourth essay dwells on the importance of film (whether documentary or fiction)in Bacon's work.

The fifth essay studies the importance of male and physique magazines as inspirational material and, in this respect, draws a comparison between Bacon's and Keith Vaughan's art, both artists (without knowing each other personally)revealing - according to the author of this essay - many common traits (notably in the relationships they had with their respective lovers).

The last essay specifically deals with Bacon's iconography, the sources and references that abound in all his paintings, most of them discovered in his studio at the time of his death and which have prompted a complete reassessment of his work.

After this somewhat cumbersome start comes the catalogue itself, divided into eight themes (like "crucifixion", "portrait", "zone", "crisis", "late", etc)each one gathering a group of paintings around it.

On the whole, this book is sometimes interesting to read (and sometimes less so, especially in the fifth essay which does not add anything to the literature on the artist: comparing somewhat pompously Bacon to a minor British artist whose only realpoint in common with him was his homosexuality ...)but disappointing as far as the quality of the reproductions is concerned, with very few close-ups of details.

I own more than a dozen books on Bacon and this one qualifies as average, both for the text and the reproductions.

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This book provides a descriptive inventory of the major components in the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. The collection documents the literary career and thought of one of America’s greatest novelists.

The catalogue includes a listing of editions of all English-language printings of books by Fitzgerald including proof and review copies and the collection’s many books inscribed by the author. Fitzgerald manuscripts, revised typescripts, correspondence, and business documents are also cited, as well as Fitzgerald screenplays and Princetoniana.There is a separate section on Zelda Fitzgerald.Highlights of the collection include the only set of unrevised galleys for The Great Gatsby, titled Trimalchio; one of the two existing acting scripts for Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!; Fitzgerald’s annotated copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses; a copy of Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls inscribed to Fitzgerald; and Fitzgerald memorabilia such as his engraved whiskey flask, a briefcase, and other family materials. Each item is described in detail—including title, publication information, and call number, where relevant, and explanatory notes.Many items in the collection, including all Fitzgerald inscriptions, are illustrated.

The Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald at the University of South Carolina provides a valuable resource not only for Fitzgerald scholars, but also for those interested in Fitzgerald’s friends and literary associates (including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ring Lardner, John Dos Passos, and Maxwell Perkins) and inAmerican culture between the world wars. ... Read more

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001:001 The Genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
001:002 Abraham was the father of Isaac; Isaac of Jacob; Jacob of Judah
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Several months after Albert Campion attends the funeral of an old school buddy, Roland Pig Peters, the detective is asked to investigate a country club murder. The victim turns out be to none other than the supposedly-dead-and-buried Pig Peters. As the death toll mounts, Campion finds that he, too, is targeted for termination. ... Read more

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May be the best Allingham
For me this one and "Police at the Funeral" are the best Allinghams.
Which one is best is a moot point. I believe the "Pig" has still
more originality, pace and fine irony.It's a delightfully "lean" book,
everything she put in it is important for the story (and for the fun).
She manages to create a story and an ambience that are both surreal (the odd aproach) and plausible at the same time.
This was also the Allingham where I found Lugg to be genuinely
amusing.

Quite a different Albert Campion.
This book is quite different from the others in the Campion series.For one thing it is written in the first person (as if AC is writing his account for a book or a narrative).Secondly, it's a mystery more than a thriller.Most of the books in this series are thrillers, but this one has a genuine mystery to it.As with other Campion stories, the plot has many twists and turns, but with this one the plot really hurries along.Campion attends a funeral of an old school chum at the beginning of the book, but then five months later he hears that this same person has just been recently murdered.He has to go down to East Anglia to investigate this one!How could old "Pig" Peters be dead twice?While he and Lugg are trying to unravel the mystery, they find they are both in grave danger.Although the book is a short one, it still has Margery Allingham's wonderful style and prose.These are really "thinking man's mysteries".

Not for Newcomers to the Campion Series...
First published over 65 years ago, this entry in Allingham's long-running Campion series didn't do much to enthuse me to investigate other of Campion's adventures. It starts with the detective attending the funeral of an old schoolmate, who was rather widely despised. Several months later, Campion is called to the country to investigate a suspicious death, and the victim appears to be the same schoolmate. Wacky antics and murky mystery ensue. A kind of unsatisfying blend of P.G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie which is unlikely to interest those who aren't already fans of the series. The one bright spot is Campion's valet, who is kind of a rough "anti-Jeeves".

Suffolk Barbecue
The Case of the Late Pig was originally part of the Mr. Campion Criminologist collection.The novelette took on a life of it's own, however.Quite short, it is ideal for audiotapes, large print novels, and even the telly.

What is most unusual about the Late Pig is that it is told by Campion in the first person.If anything, Mr. Campion's version of the crime outdoes Margery Allingham, herself.The shift is viewpoint is refreshing, and it is a shame Allingham did not try this more often.

Invited via an anonymous letter Campion attends the funeral of Pig Peters, his school bully, only to find himself invited six months later to assist in a murder case - and the victim is the very same Pig Peters.

The dead Mr. Peters has shown up under another identity in a Suffolk Village.His efforts to turn a charming country house into the 30's version of a strip mall earns him the enmity of the owner, Poppy, and all the residents of the local village.So it is no surprise when someone siezes the opportunity and drops a 300 pound flowerpot on him.Campion is called in to assist the chief constable in saving the day (and to defend the innocent).

What follows is a classic Allingham comedy of manners, full of delightful characters and unpredictable events.We have two estranged lady friends (Campion's and Pig's), the overly amorous vicar, the bored physician, the mild mannered whippet, and the mysterious mole.And there is the inevitable climax, in which Campion hares over the fields of Suffolk in an effort to save the indomitable Lugg.

All of this action helps to distract us from the somewhat thinly disguised murderer.The relative shortness of the book prevents Allingham from throwing up enough confusing red herrings, so you should be able to make a good guess in the first forty or so pages.Don't let this stop you from reading the book, though.It certainly doesn't detract from the overall fun of the novel.

A first person account of a detective and a late pig
Albert Campion, Margery Allingham's gentleman detective, presents 'The Case of the Late Pig' in the first person, recounting his progress in the whimsical voice so accurately captured by Peter Davision in the BBCadapations of a decade ago.

Campion is invited to a most peculiarfuneral, at which an old school-fellow, Roland Isidore 'Pig' Peters is theguest of honour, joined by a cast of extraordinary characters, whom Campionobserves and, in his turn, dismisses.Several months pass uneventfully,then Campion is called upon by an old friend, Sir Leo Pursuivant, toinvestigate a death at the local country club.To his surprise, Campionfinds not only that the corpse is none other than 'Pig' Peters, whom he hadbelieved dead, but that the cast of the funeral from months before havereturned to the stage, all with parts to play.As the death toll begins toclimb, Campion must sort truth from fiction, not to mention determine theidentity of a mysterious mole...

Some readers consider 'the Late Pig' tobe one of Margery Allingham's least successful Campion novels.I cannotagree with this opinion.To my mind, this is one of the most amusing andclever of the Campion books, and well worth the time of anyone who hasenjoyed any of the other pre-war stories. ... Read more

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Albert Campion arrives in Pontisbright to find preparations for the midsummer extravaganza are in full swing.Meanwhile, a body has been lying by the bridge for eight days. ... Read more

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Oh what a party!
This book is a little lighter fare for Albert Campion fans.In it we have Albert of course and his wonderful wife Amanda as well as his young son Rupert.Of course the wonderful Lugge is there too.In the book Albert and Amanda are invited to a friend's big pary, but before the first glass is drunk there are two deaths.One of them is an old dear friend of Campion's and he's not satisfied the death was natural causes.There isn't much of Campion's underworld in this book, but it's a nice tight little mystery with a lighter touch.Ms. Allingham's writing is as always clear and concise.All in all, not a bad way to spend an afternoon.

Look Who's Coming To Dinner
The Estate of the Beckoning Lady

Margery Allingham, having just written her most unnerving novel in "The Tiger in the Smoke" follows up with one of her most evanescent with "The Estate of the Beckoning Lady." William Faraday (the `Uncle William' of"Police at the Funeral" and "Dancers in Mourning") has died suddenly, shortly before Tonker and Minnie Cassands' annual garden party bash.In the honor of both William and tradition the hosts are determined to go on.The place is The Beckoning Lady, in the town of Pontisbright, birthplace of Amanda, Campion's wife (and site of "The Gyrth Chalice Mystery").

The plot is simplicity itself.The body of a singularly unpopular tax agent is found in a ditch near The Beckoning Lady.In pursuing this problem, Campion and Luke develop suspicions about Uncle William's death.Possible murderers seem to be everywhere, with prime suspects being Minnie and Tonker (oh dear, I think I just gave away a pun) as well as the owners of a nearby estate that seem hell-bent on acquiring the Cassands' holdings.Various villagers pitch in to offer support and advice, which is just as often confusing as it is helpful.

Everything, however, takes second place to the party.Indeed, the reader will learn a great deal more about how to manage large scale galas than he or she will of strange British tax laws and deadly pharmacological combinations.This is the biggest day of the year for many of the participants and all are determined to carry on regardless.This creates all the complications and distractions any mystery fan could hope for.

Prepare for first or second meetings with many delightful characters.Campion, Amanda, Luke and Lugg are there, and Campion's son Rupert makes several startling appearances.On top of many of Margery Allingham's old characters, the Pontisbright villagers are each unique and jewel-like characterizations.This is a charming set piece for which the readers are the real guests.Settle down with some champers and ice cream and prepare for a treat!

Look Who's Coming To Dinner
Margery Allingham, having just written her most unnerving novel in "The Tiger in the Smoke" follows up with one of her most evanescent with "The Estate of the Beckoning Lady." William Faraday (the `Uncle William' of"Police at the Funeral" and "Dancers in Mourning") has died suddenly, shortly before Tonker and Minnie Cassands' annual garden party bash.In the honor of both William and tradition the hosts are determined to go on.The place is The Beckoning Lady, in the town of Pontisbright, birthplace of Amanda, Campion's wife (and site of "The Gyrth Chalice Mystery").

The plot is simplicity itself.The body of a singularly unpopular tax agent is found in a ditch near The Beckoning Lady.In pursuing this problem, Campion and Luke develop suspicions about Uncle William's death.Possible murderers seem to be everywhere, with prime suspects being Minnie and Tonker (oh dear, I think I just gave away a pun) as well as the owners of a nearby estate that seem hell-bent on acquiring the Cassands' holdings.Various villagers pitch in to offer support and advice, which is just as often confusing as it is helpful.

Everything, however, takes second place to the party.Indeed, the reader will learn a great deal more about how to manage large scale galas than he or she will of strange British tax laws and deadly pharmacological combinations.This is the biggest day of the year for many of the participants and all are determined to carry on regardless.This creates all the complications and distractions any mystery fan could hope for.

Prepare for first or second meetings with many delightful characters.Campion, Amanda, Luke and Lugg are there, and Campion's son Rupert makes several startling appearances.On top of many of Margery Allingham's old characters, the Pontisbright villagers are each unique and jewel-like characterizations.This is a charming set piece for which the readers are the real guests.Settle down with some champers and ice cream and prepare for a treat!

And a Good Time Was Had by All
Margery Allingham, having just written her most unnerving novel in "The Tiger in the Smoke" follows up with one of her most evanescent with "The Estate of the Beckoning Lady." William Faraday (the `Uncle William' of"Police at the Funeral" and "Dancers in Mourning") has died suddenly, shortly before Tonker and Minnie Cassands' annual garden party bash.In the honor of both William and tradition, the hosts are determined to go on.The place is The Beckoning Lady, in the town of Pontisbright, birthplace of Amanda, Campion's wife (and site of "The Gyrth Chalice Mystery").

The plot is simplicity itself.The body of a singularly unpopular tax agent is found in a ditch near The Beckoning Lady.In pursuing this problem, Campion and Luke develop suspicions about Uncle William's death.Possible murderers seem to be everywhere, with prime suspects being Minnie and Tonker (oh dear, I think I just gave away a pun) as well as the owners of a nearby estate that seem hell-bent on acquiring the Cassands' holdings.Various villagers pitch in to offer support and advice, which is just as often confusing as it is helpful.

Everything, however, takes second place to the party.Indeed, the reader will learn a great deal more about how to manage large scale galas than he or she will of strange British tax laws and deadly pharmacological combinations.This is the biggest day of the year for many of the participants and all are determined to carry on regardless.This creates all the complications and distractions any mystery fan could hope for.

Prepare for first or second meetings with many delightful characters.Campion, Amanda, Luke and Lugg are there, and Campion's son Rupert makes several startling appearances.On top of many of Margery Allingham's old characters, the Pontisbright villagers are each unique and jewel-like characterizations.This is a charming set piece for which the readers are the real guests.Settle down with some champers and ice cream and prepare for a treat!

A Shakespearean comedy from the mistress of mystery.
A prince in disguise (or is he only a duke?) chats over the grave of his old joker friend. He receives a meaningful bouquet (there's rue for you). Midsummer Eve. Some clowns put on an entertainment and give away the plot.Young lovers pair off. The disguised duke (or prince) forges a letterconcerning a murder. Villains foiled, end of story. ... Read more

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This book is about Active Server Pages 3.0, as included with Windows 2000. However, because ASP is now a core part of so many Web-oriented features within Windows, this book covers a far wider area than just how ASP works. ASP is maturing all the time to encompass more integration with other Windows services and software, and so there are many other areas that impinge directly on the use and performance of ASP.

In particular this involves the Windows operating system itself, including the new security features of Windows 2000, and the Internet server software that comes with Windows 2000 - Internet Information Server (IIS). On top of this are the other less obvious services, which also have a direct or indirect effect on the way that ASP works. These include COM+, the various Internet service administration tools, and (indirectly) the many other services and installed software packages that either provide additional functionality to ASP, or which have interfaces that are available for use in ASP.

So, as well as chapters all about the roots of ASP, the base object structure, and how it's used, you'll also see chapters that demonstrate the many different ways that ASP integrates seamlessly with other software and services in Windows. One of the most obvious of these is access to data in a relational database or other type of data store (such as Active Directory), and you'll see several chapters devoted to these topics.

We'll also explore the intimate relationship between Internet Information Server and COM and the new COM+, and see how ASP has changed the way that it hosts and executes external components to provide better performance and scalability. This also affects the way that components are designed and built, and we'll be exploring this topic in some depth as well. Amazon.com Review
The team behind Professional Active Server Pages 2.0 has written a definitive guide for the latest version of ASP included with Windows 2000. This lengthy text offers a comprehensive look at the technology and is geared toward seasoned professionals looking to truly master this important development platform. The team of authors touch on almost every topic a working ASP coder might be interested in, including what to do when "it all goes wrong."

This title is divided into six sections that focus on key aspects of ASP: the basics, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), building components for ASP, integration with BackOffice, security/performance/scalability, and reference material. This organization makes the book useful for both lengthy reads and quick daily reference. The index and set of appendices are also quite comprehensive.

Code snippets of judicious size and summary boxes with key information such as errors and function calls make the reading productive without being distracting. Most of the material is presented in a structured topical tutorial; however, an excellent XML newspaper case study provides a real-world perspective on XML and ASP.

While a number of working programmers authored this guide, the group's expertise has been well-integrated to read consistently. The team provides some error-preventing programming procedures such as formatting and indenting code, being "Explicit" about declarations, converting variables to the appropriate data types, using good variable naming conventions, encapsulating script, and more. Whether you're looking for information on utilizing components, implementing certificates, or working with Active Directory, you'll find answers in this fine work. --Stephen W. Plain

Topics covered: ASP basics and versions, Active Server Components, ADO, XML data, components, COM/COM+, ASP Script Components, C++ component issues, ADSI and Active Directory, Message Queue Server, Collaboration Data Objects, Exchange Server integration, certificates, performance optimization, site load balancing, and ASP Object Model. ... Read more

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Good for reference, not for studying.
This book covers most of topic you may need. So, you can use it as a reference on ASP3. But it is not for beginner or for studying from a ground. It is quite hard-to-read, not explained in-depth, and it made me quite ???.

Need to know ASP?Get this book.
A bit outdated now with .Net, but I still get this ol' book out once in a while.

The BEST book for classical ASP
Obsolete??? Hardly.As I write this review, new Web page technologies are being matured: jsp, php, chm (yech).New models are being matured: Servlets, STRUTS, .NET. Classical ASP 3.0 is still quick, fast and necessary for small to medium businesses, even enterprise-level webpages. There's no better book to learn all the standards, applications, basics, and advanced capabilities of ASP than THIS book.

I love Wrox.I started with their Beginning ASP 2.0 book (how I learned). This book, a bit more advanced but in the beginning level, is still all you need to get things going from single tiered applications to multi-tiered, database driven apps.It goes into COM objects and other MS Services like Index.Really a one-stop book.

With this book and Google you have all the reference you need.

Note: ASP 3.0 is in no way, shape, or form similar to ASP.net.

A small, tiny complaint about this book is that it can be a bit wordy...just a tad.And the index in the back could use a bit more improvement.The info's still in there.

Excellent, A True God Send
If this book had nothing more than the asptable component in chapter 16, it would still be worth the extremely high price of all wrox press books. But the book has so many useful examples that you can build on.

My only experience has been a few intranets. And I always had bought the beginners series books because I didn't feel I was at the professional level. Well, this book showed me the reason I felt that way was because I didn't know the power of ASP.

If you have been playing around with ASP and really want to move forward, stop playing with the beginners and harness the power of ASP.

good reference book
As you I go along developing my web app, this book answers most of my questions, fexample, how to unload/load your application when you want to unload your dll from the application and vice versa. Before finding the answer in this book, I just rebooted the server. Along the way, it always answers my question to perplexing problems that I stumble upon, i.e why isn't my web app preserved the session id.

I have to admit that this is not a book that I would read on spare time. I don't know whether it's the flow of the structure or what. But I always get lost in the "too much" information supplied. Hence I cannot give it 5 stars.

For reference, this is a book to keep if you're developing ASP for one reason; as you become more comfortable with ASP, this book provides answers to your "no-more" beginner questions. ... Read more

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From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an annual pilgrimage to the holy shrine of their patron saint in the Provence region of southern France. But something is different about this year's gathering, with many suspicious deaths.Cecile Dubois and Neil Bowman decide to investigate. Eavesdropping, Bowman discovers that a man named Gaiuse Strome is financing the gypsies, and his suspicions on the real identity of Strome center on a highly wealthy aristocrat, distinguished folklorist and gastronome, Le Grand Duc Charles de Croytor, whose girlfriend Lila Delafont is a friend of Cecile. As they follow the caravan, Bowman and Cecile find that their lives in danger many times in an effort to uncover the secret the gypsies are so determined to hide, and before long are running for their lives. ... Read more

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Death in Provence
Alistair Maclean's "Caravan to Vacares" opens with the pursuit to the death of a man somehow connected to annual Gypsy caravans to France.The scene then shifts to a restaurant where two young Englishwomen on holiday are seemingly by chance paired with a older French nobleman and gourmand and a younger man named Bowman, who claims no occupation at all.Maclean takes his time filling in the clues that connect these two events and this results in the somewhat unusual pacing of "Caravan."

At the heart of the plotline is a smuggling operation by the Gypsies that has attracted international law enforcement attention, but Maclean devotes most of the novel to the adventures of Neil Bowman.Bowman turns out to have both very unique job skills and the unfortunate knack of drawing murderous attempts on his life.His pairing with one of the young Englishwomen provides Maclean with the opportunity for a rather chaste romance and some sharp repartee between the two.The two must overcome various obstacles, including a nearly fatal encounter in a bullring, while stringing together the clues that will solve the case.As with any Maclean novel, very little is as it first seems.Unlike most Maclean novels, the twists and turns of the story are a little harder to follow than usual.

This novel is highly recommended to Alistair Maclean fans and to readers looking for an entertaining story.

"Caravan" Hard To Follow
It's probably no accident Alistair MacLean's literary career rose to widespread prominence at the same time as commercial air travel. MacLean was the ultimate airplane fiction writer, someone whose picaresque, globe-trotting adventure novels could be devoured in a single sitting.

He might be remembered for thin characters and wooden dialogue, but it was MacLean's fast-paced narrative, often very alive and tactile, that gained him fans. Something else, too; he had a formula but a lot of creativity within that formula, an ability to develop gripping stories by putting his good-guy-bad-guy adventure yarns in unusual settings and situations. In that way he was a lot better than many give him credit for.

Unfortunately, MacLean's mobile imagination didn't always produce great fiction, which leads us to "Caravan To Vaccares." A mysterious fellow named Bowman shadows a group of mysterious, murderous Gypsies around the south of France. He jokingly explains his motives to his companion Cecile as being those of "a vengeful layabout," but what he's really up to is left opaque.

Adding to the chemistry of mood here is a group of mysterious women being held captive by the Gypsies, one with weals covering her back; a Chinese couple that appear and disappear at several points in the narrative, saying nothing but watching everything; a charging bull; and a French duke of marked appetite and hauteur who may not be as much of a neutral observer as he seems.

"Le Grand Duc," as he is called, is the most interesting character in "Caravan," and MacLean has fun with him. Bursting in on a budding hostage situation, he is told he can't just barge in.

"Nonsense. I am the Duc de Croytor. Besides, I never barge. I always make an entrance."

"Caravan" is nonsense, though fun at times around the middle when MacLean gets going with a clever reverse chase between Bowman and the Gypsies. He's chasing them chasing him. There's a good opening, too, of a Gypsy's murder, which MacLean paints darkly and well.

But as the story progresses, it becomes harder to follow. MacLean gets caught up in the sport of playing with reader expectations. You think one thing is going to happen, so something else does instead. Nearly every character has a hidden identity; one has two. The back end of "Caravan" becomes one confusing about-face after another, winding up in a too-cute tidy resolution with one character calling out "Encore!" No thanks.

Also weak is the Gypsy angle, which is never explored in any great depth. You feel like he made the bad guys Gypsies just because it would make for good cover art.

I was amused by some of this book, and enjoyed its first half pretty well. But a thin setting and confusing narrative really brought me up short. I had no problem reading the book; it's MacLean, and something to make a flight pass quickly. But "Caravan To Vaccares" is the kind of book that gives airplane fiction a bad name.

THIS CARAVAN IS REALLY WORTH GOING ALONG WITH....
Well you have to read this book if u r a fan of suspense and intrigue.......
this book has enough twists,turns and suspense.
i am sure that anybody who reads any of macleans books will get addicted to him......

So much better than the movie
This book is an excellent, fast paced and reads like it was meant to be a movie script.How unfortunate the movie makers ignored the book.A tale of gypsies, smugglers and foreign scientists, with enough twists and turns to keep the reader occupied.Overall an excellent read, I give the full five stars. ... Read more

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