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reviewed Soloing: Realizing Your Life's Ambition. December 31, 1999
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Soloing: Realizing Your Life's Ambition
Rubin suggests that soloing means "going it alone" and "being complete in oneself." To become a soloist is to gain "the knowledge one needs to cross over into a world where work and freedom are one and …
reviewed Swim with the Dolphins: How Women Can.... December 31, 1999
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Swim with the Dolphins: How Women Can Succeed in
Swim with the Dolphins is one of the most valuable books executives can read as they attempt to understand which strategies for interpersonal relations will be most effective during the new century. Co-authored …
reviewed America's Competitive Secret: Utilizi.... December 31, 1999
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America's Competitive Secret: Utilizing Women as a
First published in 1995 by Oxford University Press, America's Competitive Secret suggests how to utilize women as a management strategy. It was an excellent idea then and an even better idea now as globalization …
reviewed Domesticity Isn't Pretty. December 30, 1999
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Pros: Painfully real, addicting strip; elevates the genre     Cons: Proof that copy editing should be among the highest paid professions     The most notable thing …
reviewed Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir. December 30, 1999
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
Pros: wonderfully written, fabulous book     Cons: it ends     Last fall, I would read "Wait Till Next Year" every morning while eating breakfast. I didn't …
reviewed The Limits of Software: People, Proje.... December 30, 1999
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The Limits of Software: People, Projects, and
The same task has produced what is arguably the greatest triumph as well as the greatest failure in software development. Air traffic control is a task where 24/7/365 (functional 24 hours a day, 7 days …
reviewed The Deadline: A Novel About Project M.... December 30, 1999
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The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management
Like economics, the discipline of software development suffers from a weakness that prevents the resolution of competing theories, in that it is generally impossible to perform controlled experiments. …
reviewed Hegel's Transcendental Induction. December 30, 1999
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Hegel's Transcendental Induction
Simpson's book provides a provocative and interesting reading of several important sections of the Phenomenology of Spirit, that treats this text as a whole as a study in the "logic" of induction. He …
reviewed Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and .... December 29, 1999
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of
What I really appreciate about Dealers of Lightning is that, for the first time in a single volume, there is a comprehensive analysis of the legendary Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). Its brilliant …
reviewed Engines of Creation: The Coming Era o.... December 29, 1999
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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of
If you were to ask the world's greatest authorities on modern technology to select the five most influential books written thus far on that subject, Engines of Creation would probably be on most (if not …
reviewed Customers.Com: How to Create a Profit.... December 29, 1999
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Customers.Com: How to Create a Profitable Business
Seybold examines "the best practices for electronic commerce and electronic business today on the Internet and beyond" to enable her reader to "walk behind the scenes at more than a dozen pioneering companies …
reviewed Enterprise.com. December 29, 1999
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Enterprise.com
Those in need of a strategic guide to the network economy will find a wealth of valuable material in this book. The titles of its ten chapters suggest the nature and extent of subjects covered: The Information …
reviewed Peopleware: Productive Projects and T.... December 29, 1999
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Programming languages come and go with an occasional paradigm shift thrown in. However, the thought processes and the mental gyrations needed to complete large software projects remain largely unchanged …
reviewed Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strateg.... December 28, 1999
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Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies from
Crossing the Chasm (1991) and Inside the Tornado (1995) are most valuable when read in combination. Chasm "is unabashedly about and for marketing within high tech enterprises." It was written for the …
reviewed Unleashing the Killer App: Digital St.... December 28, 1999
Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for
The authors define a "killer application" as "a new good or service that establishes an entirely new category and, by being first, dominates it, returning several hundred percent on the initial investment." …
reviewed Being Digital. December 28, 1999
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Being Digital
This is a probing examination of the "information highway" as a means by which to transmit, globally, "weightless bits at the speed of light." Because bits are "the DNA of information", Negroponte's brilliant …
reviewed net future. December 28, 1999
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net future
According to Chuck Martin, there are (at least) seven "cybertrends" that will drive any business, create wealth, and define their future. He analyzes each in Net Future. These trends are already underway …
reviewed Take a Look at a Good Book: The Third.... December 28, 1999
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Take a Look at a Good Book: The Third Collection
One of the most simple and enjoyable problems in mathematics are the doubly-true alphametics. These are problems that are a combination of words that make up a correct expression in a language as well …
reviewed Top Secret Recipes: Creating Kitchen .... December 25, 1999
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Top Secret Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones of
Pros: Many junk foods eviscerated in gross detail     Cons: Just...not worth it; keep reading     This review more or less applies to all of the "Top Secret …
reviewed Greatness in a Nutshell: Principles o.... December 18, 1999
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Greatness in a Nutshell: Principles of Logo Design
This book doesn't just talk about the logo design process, it gives the readers plenty of space to figure it out for themselves. It is a very specialized book, but also a very good book. Small, or big, …
reviewed Crystal Singer. December 16, 1999
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Crystal Singer
Pros: GREAT story, GREAT characters     Cons: None in my epinion     How does a prima donna deal with failure? How about run away and join the Heptite Guild? Killashandra …
reviewed Riders of the Purple Sage (Classics L.... December 12, 1999
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Riders of the Purple Sage (Classics Library (NTC))
The lovely Jane Withersteen, Mormon lady rancher on the Utah borderlands is saved, in the nick of time, from the attentions of the grim Mormon elder Tull, and his minions, by the appearance, from out …
reviewed Ghost Story (book). December 12, 1999
Ghost Story
Few if any have ever crafted such a fine novel- while Poe's short stories offered a similar punch none have mastered the horror novel like Peter Straub has done with "Ghost Story". While admitedly the …
reviewed The Big Sleep. December 11, 1999
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'Nuff said. Raymond Chandler was at the top of his form (in my opinion) when he penned this tale. While the Phillip Marlowe tales that followed were wonderfully exquisite as well, they all paled in comparison …
reviewed The STAR TREK THE LOST YEARS (Star Tr.... December 11, 1999
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THE LOST YEARS answers some of the most often asked question's regarding the original series: what happened after the five year mission ended? It's outstanding premise keeps the regulars together (somewhat), …
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