Presents the conclusions of a study of about why certain companies become “great” in their particular fields. The results are interesting and often run counter to prevailing wisdom. One annoyance – the book is written in a sort of “business english” with lots of cute metaphors. But if you look past the jargon, there is some depth there.
A history of the court cases which have shaped our right to privacy. A good and sometimes scary read.
From the title, I expected this to be a thorough reference to the standard Python modules, but instead it is a collection of sample scripts which illustrate the basic usage of the standard modules. In that respect it is similar to the Python Cookbook, but the Cookbook has better recipes and more in-depth discussions of the recipes. Also, this book only covers up to Python 2.0 and is thus somewhat out of date. For example, it covers the obsolete ‘rfc822’ module, but not the new ’email’ module. Also, this book has at least one glaring error – it claims that XML is an application of SGML, which is simply not true. XML is a full-blown meta-markup language like SGML.
A happy little story about writing and bagels.
A very good piece of science fiction. The characters and setting are detailed and realistic.
A technical description of design problems and solutions for large C++ projects. In addition to logical design (functions, classes, etc.), this book focuses on physical design (files, directories, etc.) as an important aspect of large software projects. Although C++ is used throughout, many, but not all, of the concepts apply to other environments. The prose of this manual is deadly boring, even for a technical work.
Woohoo! This is good and strange, just like I like ’em.
Another Kathy recommendation, good as usual. This one is about spelling bees among other things. And broken families, of course. Bonus: Kleptomania!
A recommendation from my sister Kathy. Nice and dark.
A nice guide to eats and other stuff in NoCal.