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Combining viewpoints from a Department of Computer Science (Paul Wang) and a School of Visual Communication Design (Sanda Katila), this innovative book covers the design and technology aspects of Web site development in an integrated manner. The balanced perspective leads to an understanding of the artistic design, visual communication, information architecture, computer science, and programming needed to begin mastering the Web. While focusing on the art and technology of Web site creation, the authors emphasize theoretical understanding and developmental techniques.
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Information from Author.......2004-09-09
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The knowledge to fulfill your imagination........2004-06-16
The book is well written and concise with many wonderful examples to support the text. The combination of both web design and web programming into a single resource is inspired.
An excellent book spanning all aspects of web design........2004-03-19
This is an excellent book that covers all aspects of web development. To often are programmers unconcerned with the aesthetics representing the code they create. However it does not matter how functional your site is if the user cannot enjoy it, understand it and navigate it. That is where this book fits in. It is the perfect medium between the programming world and the design world. If read cover to cover this book can give even the most inexperienced reader the skills needed for professional web development. It is well organized and laid out in a manor perfect for the classroom environment. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in web development.
An excellent book spanning all aspects of web design........2004-03-19
This is an excellent book that covers all aspects of web development. To often are programmers unconcerned with the aesthetics representing the code they create. However it does not matter how functional your site is if the user cannot enjoy it, understand it and navigate it. That is where this book fits in. It is the perfect medium between the programming world and the design world. If read cover to cover this book can give even the most inexperienced reader the skills needed for professional web development. It is well organized and laid out in a manor perfect for the classroom environment. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in web development.
Another Five-Stars-Plus Book From Paul Wang.......2004-01-29
I have been teaching Web related courses for several years now. When I received a note from the publisher's representative annoucing the textbook, my first reaction was "Another Beauty From Paul Wang" and I was right! I have copies of all books written by Paul Wang including the best-seller, five-stars book (ANSI C on UNIX). Finally, there is a book that I really can use in teaching courses on both Web Design and Web Programming. Most existing books either discuss Web Design or Web Programming but not both. I have adopted the book and I will be using it to teach my Computer Science students as well as my MBA students. The book is well-written, comprehensive, and probably is the first book that is written by people on both sides of the aisle: Arts and Computer Science. I have always believed that most computer science folks lack the artistic side of Web publishing and many people in the arts field lack the technical side of it. I believe the two authors (a well-known and famous computer scientist and author Paul Wang and a leading expert on Visual Communication Design Sanda Katila) have done an excellent job and provided us with a wonderful textbook that addresses the subject of Web development in an integrated manner. This textbook can be used by almost anyone who is interested in Web development. It is easy to read and follow and it is very interesting. Yet it is challenging and very informative. I highly recommend this book and give it a Five-Stars rating without hesitation.
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- Outstanding book --- Comprehensive and Example- rich book.
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Web Services: A Technical Introduction
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Useless for developers.......2007-04-16
Book doesn't contain any technical information but introductory basics - no code, no details, nothing.
Not for programmers.......2006-08-27
I hoped that this book, being a "Technical Introduction", would get me up to speed as quickly as possible on the nuts and bolts of web services. As a programmer I had a real world requirement to build web service client functionality into one of my programs immediately ("yesterday") and bought this book to put me in the picture about the web services framework from a technical point of view.
But after having ploughed through the first jargon-laden five chapters at no time did I feel I was getting any closer to completing my task. Not until Chapter 6 does Deitel introduce SOAP, but still with no crystalline description of the client-server interaction.
I abandoned the book at that stage and sought out magazine and web articles, dedicated to my programming language of choice, that gave examples and background descriptions of hands-on building of SOAP clients. Ultimately that's what enabled me to get the job done. What I'd read in Deitel didn't put me in much better position than if I'd never read it.
For example Deitel covers the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit in less than one page. I feel programmers of all persuasions would have benefitted from a detailed description of what it does and how it is used, even if they ultimately don't end up using that specific tool.
I'm not saying this book wouldn't be useful for non-technical people who want some sort of clue about what web services are, how they can be used, and vaguely how the operate.
Perhaps it's not Deitel's fault I was misguided by the word "technical" in the book's name, and thought this book would be orientated towards programmers.
Great introductory book.......2005-04-21
This is an excellent book. I enjoyed reading it. I especially like the flow of the book. Unlike other books I read, this book initially provides an over view of web services as a business model. This is especially helpful for those, who would like to develop web services and later sell it. This book has good introductory coverage of Service Level Agreements, ways to market web services, and a good number of examples. The book then covers XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. Web services examples using .NET and Java is clean and descriptive. The book covers recent development in web services security, but does not provide any example in Java or .NET code to implement security. This topic is covered in more advanced book on web services. If you are interested to learn about web services and its business advantages, this Deitel book is very good to keep in your collection.
Ejaz Jamil MSEE MBA, Jence Incorporated http://www.jence.com
Just right.......2002-10-16
This is an extremely thorough, well-written book that covers web services from the ground up. Not tied to any one company's philosophy or implementation of web services standards, this book approaches the subject at a high level yet full of detail. Unlike most technical books, this books reads like a novel. I give it my highest recommendation for those of you that want to understand the underlying web services standards and framework.
Outstanding book --- Comprehensive and Example- rich book........2002-08-29
I have been functioning in this web services world for the past one plus years. I go through various articles, engaged in real time web services projects etc. This book provides the reader all the in-sight into web services. Web Services is a buzzing word around the software world as a next generation of distributing computing. This well organized book covers all the realistic topics starts with what are web services, need and different business models including B2B, B2C scenarios. It also states how web services are different and advantageous from present technologies and the core web services technologies (XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI) the building blocks of web services. It discuss in detail about the implementation of web services in both .NET and Java.
Absolutely, Web Services transfigure the software world, but it has yet to ripe out to use it in enterprise systems. Still web services are maturing. At present, web services are excellent for plain message transaction from one program/application to other. That is Web Services can be used in non-critical applications where security, reliability are not significant. One of the major concerns, we take notice of in Web Services is security. If there's one thing that has slowed the widespread acceptance and implementation of Web Services, it's their lack of security standards, reliability issues and Transaction Processing etc.
I take pleasure in reading the Web services Security chapter. It explores all the security issues such as Basic security issues, SSL, XML Signature, XML Encryption, XKMS, SAML, XACML and WS-Security in a comprehensive manner. Appendices contain VisualBasic.NET and Java Live-code implementation of web services based applications.
Microsoft and IBM have produced a road map outlining the additional Web Services security specifications along with WS-security. This book explained Microsoft's GXA, a series of specifications, which address the various problems faced by the web services in depth along with .NET MyServices, and Mappoint.NET. The two things, I enjoy very much in this book are the employing of abundant case studies and the vast Internet and Web Resources. All the case studies provide the reader a realistic knowledge. The chapters of this book walk around a wide range of recommended reading lists. All these resources help one for further reading.
Written for IT managers, software developers and business professionals alike, this guide explains the business and technology of Web services.
"This Outstanding book arrived at the exact period, which provides all the details about the Web Services in Comprehensive, realistic and practical manner."
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Excellent.......2007-09-21
I received the book in excellent condition. I also received it in a very timely manner packaged well.
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Third World Cities is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of a classic text which examines urbanisation in developing areas. Using case studies of cities drawn from around the world, David Smith confronts three main questions: Is there still a Third World, does it have a common urban form and what is the relationship between urbanisation and sustainability? This text provides an invaulable introduction to the issues and processes of the city in the Third World.
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Uses the concept of family, both literally and metaphorically to provide an introduction to Chinese culture.
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Term paper-itis.......2007-10-09
Text is thick, dry, and highly academic. Syntax is grammatically correct, but awkwardly phrased. The book is a forest of words that the reader must chop through to read.
"My brain hurts!"
Steer clear of this book unless you are a scholar or forced to read this for a class.
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This book draws upon data and theories from economics, political science, anthropology, demography, and environmental studies to provide a broad interdisciplinary overview of the Third World. A brief history shows how the expansion of Europe in the 15th century created dependencies in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Third World is shown to be not a "natural" or innate phenomenon, but a consequence of its relationship to the First World that involved economic dependency, rapid population growth, inflated and internationally supplied militaries, and governments trying to provide attractive investment climates for huge multinational corporations. Human rights violations, environmental degradation, the demographic transition, traditional agriculture, world markets, and export policies are examined in a balanced theoretical approach which is aimed at a synthesis of modernization and dependency approaches.
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Purposefully written for those coming to politics for the first time, this textbook provides an exploration and analysis of the most important political issues affecting the developing world. Offering a different perspective from standard texts in this field, Politics in the Developing World encourages an understanding of the breadth and nature of a range of pressing - and previously understated - issues: the striving for democracy; the political consequences of economic growth and development; the struggle of religious and ethnic minorities; human rights, particularly women's rights ; the impact of globalization; and the politics of the natural environment. In doing so, the interaction of domestic and global factors affecting many of the developing world countries is highlighted and a new, qualitatively different set of concerns is identified. Some have resulted from recent international changes following the demise of the Soviet bloc, including the shift to democracy in South Africa, and the ramifications of the late 1990s Southeast Asian financial crisis.To illustrate the importance of these themes and issues, five developing world regions are examined in detail: Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. While based on Haynes's previous publication, Third World Politics: A Concise Introduction (1996), this is a new book, completely rewritten, with updated regional analyses and data throughout. It concentrates on changes in the developing world in the last decade, with an increased focus on its international relations, complementing those chapters concerned with domestic issues.An ideal introduction as well as an invitation to further study, this text is essential reading for introductory students studying a range of courses including development studies, global politics, world politics, developing world politics, comparative politics, and international relations.
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Solid textbook.......2000-09-13
There are not many good texts that attempt to cover the common dilemmas of regions considered part of the 'third world.' Given the competition, this is a solid textbook that take a broad view of political, economic, and social change. Supplemented by more detailed explorations of particular countries or regions, this would be a good textbook for studying the developing world.
Concise and too the point.......2000-06-21
I purchased this book as a pre-requisite for a political science class. I thought that tis book would be boring and written as a text book, but it was enjoyable to read. I especially like reading about how Government's in Third world countries interact on economic, social, and religious levels.
Concise and too the point.......2000-06-21
I purchased this book as a pre-requisite for a political science class. I thought that tis book would be boring and written as a text book, but it was enjoyable to read. I especially like reading about how Government's in Third world countries interact on economic, social, and religious levels.
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More Urban, Less Poor: An Introduction to Urban Development and Management
Göran Tannerfeldt , and
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The world is undergoing massive urbanization: now topping three billion of the world’s six billion people and projected to increase to four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within twenty-five years. The impacts and development challenges posed by historic shift are of equal magnitude and include growing slums; lack of access to adequate water, sanitation and utilities; challenges to transport, employment, education; and dramatic effects on human well being and the environment.
This full colour textbook, written for students and development practitioners, covers the full breadth and depth of the challenges in urban development in developing and transitional countries and makes sense of this complex and important field. Written in an accessible style, the book covers the key issues in urban development including how cities grow, economic development, urban poverty, slums, housing and land tenure, environmental problems and health, obstacles to development, the management and governance of urban growth, the finance and delivery of services as well as the role of development cooperation and policy frameworks in overcoming the challenges. Also included are dozens of easy-to-read tables and graphs that summarize key data and photographs illustrating salient points as well as sources of additional reading and information on key areas.
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World Hunger explores the nature and extent of contemporary world hunger, explaining why hunger still persists while agricultural production increases and genetic engineering revolutionizes food production and distribution. Illustrating the diversity of diets in the world and the connections between the global and local in numerous case studies, Young asserts that contrasting material realities of North and South hemispheres are very similar--the misconception that hunger "over there" is unconnected to conditions "over here" is exposed. Globalization and access to food in the global supermarket is also examined.
Explaining the essential political character of hunger, the author exposes popular myths and identifies positive changes where prevailing inequalities and ideologies are challenged and it becomes possible to envisage a world where hunger is history.
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Explaining the essential political character of hunger, Young exposes popular myths and identifies positive changes where prevailing inequalities and ideologies are challenged, making a world where hunger is history foreseeable.
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- Women and Development in the Third World
- An eye-opening look at women in development
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Women and Development in the Third World (Routledge Introductions to Development)
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For all societies, the common denominator of gender is female subordination. For women of the Third World, the effects of this position are exacerbated by the legacy of colonialism, economic crisis, and patriarchal attitudes. Feminist critique has introduced the gender factor to development theory, arguing that the equal distribution of the benefits of economic development can only be achieved through a radical restructuring of the process of development. Now, the universal validity of both gender-neutral development theory and the feminist concepts of the post-industrial world are being questioned. In this book, Janet Momsen presents ten worldwide case studies which act as personalized examples of women's lives and coping strategies in the Third World. Her review of policy and practice raises questions about development planning and the empowerment of women. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of environmental degradation and economic restructuring on women, with a description of the integral position of women in any solution to the current crises facing the Third World.
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Women and Development in the Third World.......2000-11-27
This book is an easy reader yet it has very interesting case studies that further strengthens the key ideas throughout the book.
An eye-opening look at women in development.......2000-10-02
Momsen gives the reader a detailed and data saturated presentation of the predominant reasons behind and the characteristics of discrimination against women in 3rd world countries. She makes salient points about local economic function and readily backs up her hypotheses with graphs and tables chock full of econometric goodness. But the book drags at times, especially when she delves into data doldrums. She rescues herself through a well constructed argument that helps neophytes like me understand the complex issue at hand. Overall, a good effort and extremely informative. Keep up the good work.
Katherine Shorey.......2000-10-02
Momsen's book describes the challenging atmospere in which third world women are living. Their unappreciated and unrewarded role in the domestic sphere has left them too unskilled and uneducated to enter the labor force. Momsen also explains possible causes for the historical gender inequalities that are illustrated throughout her book. She further investigates the role of the women and concludes that the oppression is socially, not biologically based.-Katherine Shorey
Information in Every Sentence.......2000-09-27
This book was excellent because it had very well thought out and factual information. I enjoyed and agree with, especially the thesis that the reason women are economically under men is because of the extra work they have becuase of their multiple responsibilities; i.e. housekeeping, child rearing, and a job. - Kimberly Campbell
Short Review.......2000-09-26
Women and Development in the Third World asks and answers questions about why women stand where they do in the developing world. The result of women's labor both within and outside of the home is explored in depth. The strength of this short book is its ability to keep the reader's interest, even while quoting hard data. This is not a feminist complaint about the subordination of women; it is an objective look at the role women play in the economies of the developing world.
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