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1. |  Ten Minute Guide to Investing in Stocks By: E. Saenz Publisher: Alpha Books Publication Date: 01-SEP-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Ten Minute Guide to Investing in Stocks New investors can fall into some dangerous traps. If you are new
to the stock market, if you need a refresher course in investing
basics, or if you are an employee of a corporation that manages its
own profit sharing stock plan, this easy-to-use reference guide on
everything from research to mutual funds can help you. It provides
a basic education on stocks, investing, and the way the market
works....
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2. |  Ten Minute Guide to Getting Organized By: Janet Bigham Bernstel; Stephen Windhaus Publisher: Alpha Books Publication Date: 13-OCT-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Ten Minute Guide to Getting Organized This guide is based on the philosophy that organization is a
skill and, like all skills, it can be learned. The author provides
steps for creating systems that will save you time and labor, shows
you how to keep your desktop clutter-free, helps you avoid
procrastination and excuses,and introduces you to organizational
tools that will benefit both you and your staff....
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3. |  Ten Minute Guide to Performance Appraisals By: Dale Furtwengler Publisher: Alpha Books Publication Date: 01-NOV-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Ten Minute Guide to Performance Appraisals As a new manager, how do you construct a performance review that
will give your employees balanced, encouraging feedback, yet
provide them with the critiquing they may need? This book answers
that question. It explains the importance of employee appraisals to
your staff's future performance, and details what you need to do
before evaluation time comes around. You can learn how to write the
review, how to handle the face-to-face part of the review, and how
to deal with the aftermath of a bad review. It also gives ideas for
establishing goals and priorities that employees can work toward,
and...
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4. |  Ten Minute Guide to Conducting a Job Interview Publisher: Alpha Books Publication Date: 20-NOV-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Ten Minute Guide to Conducting a Job Interview If you have the responsibility of selecting and evaluating job
candidates, this book will give you the tools to carry out an
effective interview. Based on the philosophy that the best
predictor of future success is past performance, the guide teaches
you how to analyze a job, review a resume, and plan and maintain
control of an interview. The list of sample questions will help you
identify the right person for any job opening....
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5. |  Essential JavaScript™ for Web Professionals By: Dan Barrett; Dan Livingston; Micah Brown Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 03-AUG-1999 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Essential JavaScript™ for Web Professionals
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With JavaScript, you can build sites that look hotter and work
smarter than ever before! Now, learn JavaScript by example, from
two leading Fortune 500 Web developers! You'll learn all you need
to get results as you build real-world practice sites that sell
products, educate visitors, offer subscriptions, and display ads.
Best of all, the finished sites are on the Web—so you can
reuse the code and see exactly how your pages should look and
work!
Write JavaScript to do all this, and much more!
Detect browsers and platforms
Create content dynamically
Create image...
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6. |  Essential Guide to Telecommunications, Second Edition, The By: Annabel Z. Dodd Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 15-JUL-1999 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Essential Guide to Telecommunications, Second Edition, The
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Your complete, up-to-the-minute telecom/Internet briefing!
Whatever your role in telecom or Internet services, you'll be
more effective if you understand the basics of telecommunications
technology and the realities of the fast-changing telecom business.
With The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, Second
Edition, you will get this understanding-even if you have no
technical background at all. In this book, leading consultant
Annabel Z. Dodd teaches you everything you must know to understand
the telecommunications industry. You'll find up-to-the-minute
coverage of today's...
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7. |  IT Services: Costs, Metrics, Benchmarking, and Marketing By: Anthony F. Tardugno; Thomas R. DiPasquale; Robert E. Matthews Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 10-MAR-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: IT Services: Costs, Metrics, Benchmarking, and Marketing
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Unleashing the Power of Integrated Service
Delivery
Harris Kern's Enterprise Computing Institute
Solutions for IT Professionals
Delighting IT customers: the real-world,
start-to-finish guide
IT Services is the first 100%
customer-focused guide to satisfying the consumers of your
company's IT services — and building the loyalty your IT
organization needs. In this book, three leading IT professionals
present a fully integrated, comprehensive approach to service
delivery in today's global, distributed environments.
You'll discover how to establish processes,
service and cost...
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8. |  Windows® 2000 Device Driver Book: A Guide for Programmers, Second Edition, The Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 20-NOV-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Windows® 2000 Device Driver Book: A Guide for Programmers, Second Edition, The
The #1 Windows device driver book—fully updated for
Windows 2000!
Step-by-step planning, implementation, testing, debugging,
installation, and distribution
Complete coverage of the new Windows Driver Model (WDM)
Practical debugging and interactive troubleshooting
CD-ROM: Exclusive tools for streamlining driver development,
plus extensive C/C++ sample driver library!
Windows Driver Model (WDM) for Windows 2000 and 98—in
depth!
Building drivers that support Plug-and-Play and Power
Management
Windows Management Instrumentation: logging device errors and
events—and...
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9. |  IT Organization: Building a Worldclass Infrastructure By: Harris Kern; Stuart Galup; Guy Nemiro Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 15-FEB-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: IT Organization: Building a Worldclass Infrastructure
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Organizing IT for excellence in 21st century distributed
environments
Few organizations are achieving their goals for reliability,
availability, and serviceability in distributed
environments—and the obstacles aren't technical, they're
organizational. How does one structure an IT
organization to succeed with today's tools and architectures? IT
Organization: Building a World-Class Infrastructure delivers
realistic, specific answers that draw upon the experiences of more
than 40 leading companies. You'll discover how to:
Design your organization to deliver "any data,...
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10. |  By: Wesley J. Chun Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 14-DEC-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Core Python Programming
New to Python? This is the developer's guide to Python
development!
Learn the core features of Python as well as advanced topics
such as regular expressions, multithreaded programming,
Web/Internet and network development, GUI development with
Tk(inter) and more
Also includes features found in the new Python 1.6 and 2.0
releases
CD-ROM: Complete Python distributions (source code,
documentation, and various binaries) plus all example scripts in
the book
Python is an Internet and systems programming language that is
soaring in popularity in today's fast-paced software...
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11. |  By: James W. Cortada Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 14-AUG-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 21st Century Business Manage all the changes driving your business in the 21st
century!
In a time of unremitting, accelerating technological change,
James W. Cortada offers a calm, intelligent path through the
wilderness, helping managers understand the big picture and
successfully manage the transition to the Internet economy. Cortada
shows how to get past the hype associated with innovation, and
leverage the best of the new technologies — without
abandoning management fundamentals that are more important today
than ever.
Management How the fundamentals of management will
— and won't — apply in the 21st...
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12. |  By: Gary Walker Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 07-MAR-2001 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: IT Problem Management The complete "best practices" guide to IT problem
resolution!
No matter how professional your IT organization, if you can't
resolve problems quickly and effectively, you'll lose your
stakeholders' confidence—and fail. Nowadays, help desk s
aren't enough: companies want true service centers capable of
delivering complex, strategic solutions. IT Problem
Management is the first single source for building world-class
problem management processes. Drawing upon his extensive consulting
e xperience, Gary Walker presents specific improvements you can
make to achieve breakthrough results in any help...
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13. |  Essential Guide to Wireless Communications Applications, The By: Andy Dornan Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 12-DEC-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Essential Guide to Wireless Communications Applications, The Your complete guide to today's "killer" wireless apps-and
tomorrow's!
Covers EVERYTHING you can do with wireless technology!
The wireless Web: WAP and beyond
Mobile e-commerce: security, payment systems, and more
PCS and high-bandwidth 3G cellular
Bluetooth: breakthrough short-range wireless applications
For consumers, investors, executives, marketing/PR
professionals, and developers
The next-generation wireless and mobile Internet revolution is
under way! Now here's a complete guide to next-generation wireless
applications and their business impact, written...
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14. |  Software Development: Building Reliable Systems By: Marc Hamilton Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 22-MAR-1999 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Software Development: Building Reliable Systems 80% of software projects fail—here's why the other 20%
succeed!
Software Development is the most thorough, realistic
guide to "what works" in software development—and how to make
it happen in your organization. Leading consultant Marc Hamilton
tackles all three key components of successful development: people,
processes, and technology.
From streamlining infrastructures to retraining programmers,
choosing tools to implementing service-level agreements, Hamilton
unifies all of today's best practices—in management,
architecture, and software engineering. There's never been a...
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15. |  XML: The Annotated Specification By: Bob DuCharme Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 14-DEC-1998 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: XML: The Annotated Specification
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"The official W3C XML spec-by design-is a concise and formal
document. Bob DuCharme has annotated the full text of that spec
with explanations, insights and over 170 new usage examples. The
result is a marvelous reference for XML users and implementors."
— Charles F. Goldfarb
The complete XML standard-as approved by the W3C-explained in
detail by a leading XML expert and author!
Serious about XML? No matter what other XML books you own, the
final word is the official W3C specification, and you should own a
copy. Now there is a guide to the often arcane language of XML,
computer...
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16. |  By: Richard Steflik; Prashant Sridharan Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 14-APR-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advanced JAVA Networking Super-charged network solutions for experienced Java
professionals, updated to Java 2
Create powerful client/server applications with RMI
Use IDL to build CORBA applications that work with legacy
systems
Interface with databases using JDBC and SQL
Completely updated from the best-selling first edition
The latest in Java: JDBC, JINI, JMAPI, IDL, and CORBA
Up-to-date networking: TCP/IP, RMI, sockets
Application servers, Web servers, and servlets
Directory Services, LDAP, and JNDI
Advances in Java security
Java remains the language of choice for building...
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17. |  Core C++ A Software Engineering Approach By: Victor Shtern Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 24-JUL-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Core C++ A Software Engineering Approach Master C++ the right way: From the software engineering
perspective!
Master C++ the right way!
Object-oriented approach to coding throughout
Harness C++'s strengths; avoid its dangers
Build more easily maintainable code
Build more powerful, robust, maintainable C++ software!
For developers with experience in any language, Victor Shtern's
Core C++ teaches C++ the right way: by applying the best
software engineering practices and methodologies to programming in
C++. Even if you've already worked with C++, this comprehensive
book will show you how to build code that is more...
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18. |  By: Damon Hougland; Aaron Tavistock Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 05-OCT-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Core JSP
The experienced developer's guide to JavaServer Pages
development!
Database access, XML support, JavaBean integration, and much
more
Architecting JSP applications for maximum performance and
maintainability
Includes several complete sample JSP applications such as an
authentication framework, an email tag library, and a
Database-to-XML/XSL conversion tool
Sun's JavaServer Pages technology gives developers a powerful
cross-platform solution for dynamic Web application development
without the drawbacks of previous approaches. In Core JSP,
two leading enterprise developers show...
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19. |  Large-Scale, Component-Based Development By: Alan W. Brown Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 30-MAY-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Large-Scale, Component-Based Development
"This book is very well written. I have never seen a book on the
market that discusses these concepts as well as this book. Anyone
involved with Information Technology should be familiar with this
material. If not, they need to get this book ASAP and read it cover
to cover."
—William H. Murray, author of many best-selling programming
titles
The strategic guide to enterprise-class component and Web
development
In this definitive book, the R&D leader at one of the
world's top software companies presents a complete conceptual
framework for Internet-centered, component-based...
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20. |  By: Brent A. Miller; >Chatschik Bisdikian Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 21-SEP-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Bluetooth Revealed The authoritative guide to Bluetooth! From two contributors to
the Bluetooth specification!
For users, the new Bluetooth wireless standard will cut through
the complexity of wireless communications, enabling devices to
communicate seamlessly. Bluetooth Revealed offers the first
insider's view of the Bluetooth standards: crucial information and
insight professionals need to start implementing Bluetooth
solutions—now. Written by leaders of the Bluetooth community,
it presents the entire specification in unprecedented depth: its
goals, scope, structure, interrelationships, and...
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