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Here's the most contemporary music dictionary on the market! Conveniently divided into three main sections: The Dictionary of Music Terms defines over 2,000 music terms concisely, including notation and theory terms, instruments and terms used in pop music, electronic music and the music business; The Dictionary of Musicians provides more than 400 capsule biographies of composers and other musicians; and Reference Charts give instant, at-a-glance summaries of the essentials of music, encompassing instrumental and vocal ranges, notation signs and symbols, and scales, modes and key signatures.
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Hal Leonard Pocket Music Dictionary.......2005-09-20
For a little pocket dictionary, it's got a lot in it. I like the way it is organized. It fits easily into my bag and on my nightstand. I am very happy with it. I still may shop around for a larger music dictionary but in the meantime this one is great and I will use it even when I get a bigger one.
Pocket Dictionary (Hal Leonard).......2000-11-14
Every student should have a suitable music dictionary at their disposal during ensemble rehearsals. This book fits the bill perfectly for junior high, middle school and high school students. A must have for any kid in band or orchestra.
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If the muse seems to have lost your address, or a big writer's block has hit you squarely in the head, the Hal Leonard Pocket Rhyming Dictionary may be just the inspiration you need to get your words to once again flow freely! A treasure trove of 30,000 entries organized alpha-phonetically to maximize word choice and minimize cross-referencing, this concise and user-friendly new resource is ideal for singer/songwriters, writers and poets, whether serious or recreational, professional or amateur. Encompassing standard vocabulary, proper nouns, popular expressions and much more, this is by far the most contemporary rhyming dictionary on the market. Includes a foreword by Nashville songwriting legend Buzz Cason! The Pocket Rhyming Dictionary follows in the footsteps of these other handy resources from leading music print publisher Hal Leonard: The Pocket Music Dictionary (HL00183006, ISBN 0-7935-1654-4) and Pocket Music Theory (HL00330968, ISBN 0-634-04771-X).
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In insightin' for good Writin' .......2007-09-16
A good small size rhyming dictionary if you are a writer on the go. Just put in your bag and you're never without a resource to help your creative flow.
Very user-friendly.......2003-09-23
This is the only reference tool I really need as a songwriter. It's helpful when you're looking for that last line to wrap up a tune. I like how it's organized phonetically, & by word endings--you don't have to waste a lot of time finding what you need. For its size and price, it's been incredibly useful.
Very useful.......2003-09-23
Once I got the hang of the way this book organizes its rhyming words (which wasn't that difficult), I found this dictionary to be very useful. I especially appreciated not having to deal with the cross referencing necessary with dictionaries organized by spelling. And because it's pocket sized, it's easy to carry around for whenever I'm inspired to write poetry.
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Talk has never been cheaper in political journalism. On radio and TV, cable and network, there are now dozens of political talk shows. They range from the calm and ego-less Brian Lamb conducting a C-Span roundtable to the vein-popping G. Gordon Liddy telling his listeners exactly where to shoot federal agents. For this book, Howard Kurtz, a Washington Post media reporter and sometime talk show guest himself, interviewed nearly everyone associated with the genre. Frequently, the interviewees put their finger on what's wrong. "It's gotten to be a game," Sam Donaldson says of the guests on ABC's This Week. "They come on with one thing in mind--to put forward their view on a particular topic or two, but make certain they don't give us anything else. . . . They'll lie as part of their game plan. I can't immediately disprove what they're saying. . . . We're just an extension of the PR mechanism." According to Michael Kinsley of Slate (and former Crossfire cohost), what television wants is "jovial disagreement. We're all pals here, just joshing around in the locker room, when I think they're (expletive) liars."
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America is awash in talk. Loud talk, angry talk, conspiratorial talk that has changed the nature of journalism and politics, producing a high-decibel revolution in the way we communicate. In this fascinating, maddening, behind-the-scenes look at America's powerful talk shows, the author of Media Circus examines their excesses, conflicts, and impact, and explains how they are changing our culture.
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Loved the book - front to back.......2000-08-14
Howard Kurtz is an insider. He knows about that which he speaks. As a result this book offered wonderful insight into the program format of "talk." Although I can't put my finger on exactly why, it seems that the talk format got a lot of attention in the early 1990s. Perhaps it was because Rush Limbaugh was getting so much attention after the '94 elections; or that James Carville was single-handedly dumbing down the political talk show circuit? In any case, Kurtz go this book out in 1996 right at the tail end of the whole deal.
The stories are classic Kurtz and as such are quite entertaining, but take 'em with a grain of salt. I based my masters thesis on a premise in another Kurtz book (Spin Cycle) only to discover that a quantitative analysis proved the premise slightly off-mark. In other words, when Kurtz says that Imus was responsible (or "helpful") for getting Bill Clinton elected, it's a good idea to pause and take note of all the factors involved.
The genre is certainly fascinating fare, but Kurtz often wants us to believe that talk show hosts are the real agenda-setters in our society. The fact is that mass society theory (aka: magic bullet or hypodermic needle approaches) has largely been discounted. We know that the influence of these shows can be great in certain instances, but by and large their influence is best described as moderate. If you want to push the case that people who watch Jerry Springer everyday are prone to behavioral disorders, I would recommend reading several research articles by George Gerbner (or Bandura & Ross) and then rejoining the discussion.
In fact, the whole book is a budding communication researcher's dream. There are so many passages that are screaming to be tested. And in other passages, certain communication theories may go unmentioned, but are clearly being described. For example: In chapter three, Kurtz cites a producer for Sally Jesse who said that these daytime TV shows are really just giving the people what they want. This is the old debate as to whether TV is dumbing down society's level of conversation. In chapter eleven, he quotes a Clinton aide talking about "the water cooler effect." There are many other (and perhaps better) instances in the book where this is the case.
I enjoyed the book. It's a good read. I only wish that Kurtz would write a newer revised edition; my guess is that the air has grown a little more "stale" than "hot" in the past few years. And that may be why no update is on the agenda.
Well done.......1999-09-21
I picked up this book with one goal in mind: cure myself of my own tendency to watch the talk shows. Not so much Springer/Stern, etc.., but the Sunday a.m. and evening politcial shows - particularly Crossfire. And this book definitely accomplished that goal.
The most striking thing to me is how disingenuous this whole culture has become. Anything to get on TV seems to be the theme. We have always made that comment when watching some buffoon on Jenny Jones expose their sad life for all the world. Now we can add Robert Novak, et.al., to the list. They just go about it in a more high-minded manner and expose their self-righteous beliefs and attitudes.
If these shows really cared about content, they would have more objective hosts and panelists. But it's entertainment and so we get Sam Donaldson and John McLaughlin.
Oh well, I'm cured.
On the other hand, it was slightly tedious at times (like the shows themselves) because there is only so much one can say about this genre.
Outstanding Analysis of Today's Media Culture.......1998-12-30
Howard Kurtz gives the best analysis I've seen of today's talk show circus. His best point is that "television is the enemy of complexity." Tons of details are available on virtually every major talk show host/hostess and regular participants, both in radio and television. I like this book much more than I expected, and encourage anyone who likes "talking head" shows to give it a look.
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Title: 'Hot Air - All Talk, All the Time.' (book reviews)
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Title: Hot Air: All Talk, All the Time.
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They all are here!.......2002-06-30
This book has evry x-men from the saga seris. it gives really good info and helps u learn about them.
X-men Cliffnotes.......2000-07-21
I have been a pretty big fan of X-men for along time but I was never into reading comic books. So it's a good guess to say that I know only a little bit of history behind the X-men. I bought this book expecting it to have more info on the game and less history behind the X-men. But I was wrong, instead it's pretty much made for both the gamer and the interested reader. It talks about all the different branches of the X-men and most of the characters, both past and present. The illustrations are also excellent and up-to-date. I totally recommend this book to anyone who has any X-men questions, it is very informative.
Lot's of history into the X-Men..........1999-06-29
If you ever wanted to know the history of any of the X-Men characters, (new or old) but didn't have the money for past comic issues, this is worth it! They have team discriptions of the Reavers, the Hand, MLF, New Mutants, Alpha Flight, Hellions! Everyone from Professor-X to Maggott!
Needs more research.......1999-06-28
Obviously the authros didn't properly research the comics to write this sourcebook. Don't get me wrong, it's a difficult task to keep track of all these characters and things will get dated fast. But there are some obvious flaws that I've had to rewrite. Otherwise, it's pretty thorough and has groups like the MLF, Acolytes, Morlocks, and Marauders. Although, the Morlocks is missing a huge amount of members and obvious people are missing (like Wildside from the MLF, Milan from the Acolytes, etc.) The good thing is that it included a lot of people currently in Marvel Limbo. Karma, Dazzler, etc.
Great.......1999-03-15
Has acurate detailed descriptions of the marvel characters. Well written and has a nice odor
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A lot of programming involves solving the same kinds of basic problems. Well, what if a community of experts got together and pooled their knowledge to come up with the best programming practices for solving these problems? You would have what are known as design patterns.
Author Floyd Marinescu, a leading expert on EJB, worked with the members of the EJB community of TheServerSide.com to put their collective knowledge together to build a library of design patterns, strategies, and best practices for EJB design and development. This treasure-trove of proven best practices will allow developers to quickly solve difficult programming assignments. Unlike other patterns books, this book goes beyond high-level designs to the actual code for implementing them, saving developers countless hours of time and effort when building scalable, reliable, and maintainable EJB systems.
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A book to be polished, condensed, extinguished..........2004-02-13
Honestly, the book is not a bad book, it presents an interesting yet hard topic, how to design EJB (or in a broader sense, J2EE application) using design patterns. However, this book has a large intersection with Core J2EE Patterns, which not only includes more patterns (on all layers), but also is written in a more clear and comprehensive way.
Except the patterns presented in both books, (Session Facade, Data Transfer Object(DTO), DTO Factory(Assembler), EJBHomeFactory(Service Locator), Business Delegate...) the author introduced,
"EJB Command" pattern, which in practice(IMO), has limited usage in server side enterprise application, since it distributes the business logic to command objects (usually the client) and thus will cause business rules duplication and more importantly, harder to change the rules later since its distribution;
"Generic Attribute Access and Data Transfer Hashmap" pattern, which is nothing but using map to transfer data. This again will suffer in distributed applications, since both clients and server have to agree on map key protocol and it is harder to add/change the keys later;
"Data Access Command" pattern, which derives from both command and data access object(DAO, presented in Core), not only will this pattern suffer the cons of command pattern usage in enterprise distributed application, but also potential complexity in command processing to make sure dead-lock situations, data integrity, and may end up with a lot of small customized command classes.
Even though the author mentioned the cons of these patterns clearly, I think the risk outweighs the benefit in an entry-mid level enterprise application design book which tries to teach designers how make a good design.
A few good things that were missed out by Core J2EE patterns are "Business Interface", "Version Number", "Dual Persistent Entity Bean", "Primary Key Generation". But these can be find somewhere else, particularly, "Version Number" and "Primary Key Generation" are more in the database/tranaction domain than EJB domain.
Chapter6 "From Requirements to Pattern-Driven Design" is supposed to be a case study, but is presented in a vague and not derived way to step through, it also lacks the normal iterative/refactoring design style, if everything is straightforward and in place to make a perfect design decision, then I would think the example would not be real. Though, I do like the author's layering style definition from Presentation, Application, Services, Domain, to Persistence.
Chaper7 is about development, building, testing, deployment process, it is totally irrelevant to the design pattern topic, and too short to be useful, and there are a lot of good books (instead of only one chapter) in the book store.
Chapter8 is about JDO, again, a single chapter would not make readers' day.
Chapter9 is good, it is about idioms, good practices vs. pitfalls in J2EE application design. However, the list is too short and does not provide how to refactor the bad design to good one compared with Core J2EE Patterns.
Overall, there are limited useful contents presented in this book, and I had feeling that a lot of stuff (unrelated) were stuffed in just to fill up the space to make it a decent-sized book. I would recommend Core J2EE Patterns over this one if you are interested in J2EE application using design patterns. Only one of these two books will stand last...
My favorite technical book at the moment.......2004-02-02
The book is excellent. Gives you a very good insight not only on the role of EJBs in the modern J2EE architecture but the J2EE architecture itself. Terse but interesting and comprehensive.
I believe every J2EE programmer of a mid to senior level has to read it and understand the Chapter 6, which is kind of a recap of the book. I wish I worked in a team where every developer has read this book - it would be so much easier to communicate and build a well designed enterprise application.
I enjoyed this book better than "Bitter EJBs", although the latter is quite useful too. Now it is time to go for "Core J2EE patterns".
unfortunate treatment of a relevant and interesting topic.......2003-10-25
First thing first, I'll come to the review of this book but before that some advice for you... if you are a J2EE architect/developer you'd need to use the contents of this book time and again, but this book is so badly organized and fluffy one can hardly survive the frustration of reading it twice, so make notes the first time you take the pain of going thru this book... following are mine
- the importance of DTOs have come down following EJB2.0 release
- reduce network chattiness, consider following options
-- Session facade: remember not to create a God class, group relevant functions together in each Facade
-- Consider message facade for asynchronous processing of requests where an immediate response is not required
-- consider Command pattern only for prototyping
-- use HashMaps or Value objects for transferring Entity EJB data over indiv get/set methods
-- use LocalHomes for Session Bean to Entity Bean comm
- create a business interface, a superinterface which both the remote and the Bean itself can implement
- strongly recommend RowSet (JDBC 2.0 optional/JDBC 3.0 core) for tabular data transfer
- depending on requirement, strike a balance between Domain Data Objects (Entity EJB data copies) and custom data objects (what the customer wants to see in one shot), remember to make Custom DOs read only
- consider Fast Lane Reader pattern, pretty neat... Consider JDBC for Reading pattern for read-only data
- Dual Persistent Entity Beans, toggle between BMP/CMP EJB by modifying the deployment descriptors
- skip Chapter 4, use 'Service Locator' pattern with caching option for locating and caching EJB homes
- need to generate primary keys, mostly use UUID generation technique discussed in case database's sequences are not enough
- Part 2 of the book is mostly fluff, it discusses everything but 'Best Practices for EJB design and Implementation', which coincidentally is the heading for part 2
- using ANT and jUnit, you call them best practice? No, they are standard practices
- model domain/persistence/services/clients in that order
- in discussing alternatives to Entity EJBs author laudes JDOs too much, I suggest you check out the 'Hibernate' project, looks more intuitive than JDO (to me)
- Chapter 9 (EJB design Strategies, Idioms and Tips) is actually pretty good, probably because this is the only chapter that's not fluffy, thank you Floyd
-- don't use Composite Entity Bean Pattern, good suggestion Floyd
-- field validation on Entity beans? Use (define and implement) get/set-XXXfield methods since you can't implement the get/set-XXX methods
-- prefer scheduled updates to real-time computations
-- Message Beans - use serialized classes to enable type checking
-- call setRollbackOnly and NOT Rollback, when App exceptions occur
-- limit parameters for EJB create, don't pass DTOs
-- don't use XML as a DTO mechanism, good eye-opener for XML fans
Okay, now the review comes...
Many of us J2EE developers and architects alike encounter a large decision tree while architecting/modeling enterprise-class systems with the help of EJBs, it becomes very difficult to weigh all the options available and all the customized treatment of EJBs on different J2EE containers over and above the minimum req or what's provided in SUN's reference implementation, most of us recognize a need for performance improvement in this area and a need to recognize the best practices or patterns to be used to help solve the frequent and recurring problems. For this very reason this book 'could have' been such an invaluable asset to the J2EE community, but alas this should have remained a bulky chapter in Ed Roman's 'Mastering EJB (2nd Edition)' book, the content has been fluffed beyond repair in this book and that's the last thing one needs in a patterns book, keep it short and organized.
The Author has not found a way to organize the pattern contents in a logical manner, due to this most of the chapters look like one loooooong paragraph each, organize. Author defines and talks about patterns and antipatterns in the same tone. The code examples I gather would be helpful for beginners.
All in all, this book contains a lot of content I would not advise people to miss, but the book is not worth buying, download and read it from the website, theServerside.
In addition, I suggest
- J2EE Design patterns: Deepak Alur et al
- Design Patterns: Eric gamma et al... read it only if you are a pattern gung-ho
Excellent Beginner Reference.......2003-10-14
A catalog of problem-solution patterns that pertain to J2EE. A great reference for beginners, instructing in some of the do's and don'ts of J2EE development. Much of the material presented has appeared on the Server Side, or in the J2EE core patterns from Sun, but this book presents the material in a concise easy to read format.
General Topics include:
1. use of data transfer objects (DTOs)
2. architecture mechanisms to help promote team development
3. transaction and persistance patterns
4. key generation
5. code interaction patterns to help allevite performance bottlenecks.
6. multi-tier architectures and how to optimize them.
There is also a short chapter on using JUnit and Ant to automate your environment, but they are so brief they really serve as more of a sales point to investigate these technologies rather than giving any real info on how to use them.
Probably the most useful chapter was the last one which covered a number of tips and tricks to make EJB development easier.
All in all as a beginner I got a lot of useful information out of this book. A seasoned developer will probably find a few things of interest, but will likely already know much of the material from the J2EE core patterns and personal experience.
Excellent book........2003-10-09
This book is a must read for every J2EE developer. It is well written and clearly describes the major design patterns to use in a J2EE application. The second half is chock-full of tips and best practices regarding the development process, setting up your environment, doing testing, etc.
The narrative style (as opposed to the encyclopedia-like style that other Design Patterns books use) makes it a pleasant read, while never becoming long-winded. Quite the contrary: it is packed with information.
I'd recommend this book to anyone still anywhere on the learning curve to becoming a J2EE expert. Developers already at the guru stage should certainly browse through the PDF version on TheServerSide - or better: buy (and read!) the book then lend it out to the less enlightened!
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