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Windows 2000 Pro: The Missing Manual
Sharon Crawford Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0596000103 |
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Promising to help its readers master the corporate PC, Windows 2000 Pro: The Missing Manual explains Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (the OS that's meant to replace Microsoft Windows NT Workstation) to the people who use it. Author Sharon Crawford does a fine job of showing how to get Windows 2000 Professional to do what you want, and with the best performance possible. Buy and enjoy this book, if you want to understand your work computer as well as you know your home computer, or if you just want an easy-to-read reference to help you figure out new Windows challenges as they pop up.Like most of its Pogue Press littermates, this book distinguishes itself by the way in which it deals with its subject software's deviations from common sense. In a model sidebar, Crawford explains why the Permissions window allows you to set both "Deny" and "Allow" permissions on a resource. She aptly explains why not allowing access isn't the same as denying access, and similarly focuses light on other confusing details of Windows 2000 Professional. This approach to software and its quirks is what makes this book different from the (many) other "How to Use Windows 2000 Professional" books that are on the market. Let's hope that Pogue Press continues to steer its writers away from ponderous documentation whose structure is dictated by menu contents. Books like this are fresh air, in a genre that invites drudgery. --David Wall
Topics covered: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional for the people who use it. Beginning with the barest of essentials (logging on and starting programs), this book proceeds through local area network (LAN) and Internet connectivity, hardware administration, and security. Mostly, this is an introductory text, but it covers the OS thoroughly at the user--as opposed to administrator or programmer--level.
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Windows 2000 Pro combines the friendly interface of Windows 98 with the famous stability of Windows NT. Windows 2000, the successor to NT, introduces many technologies that weren't available in NT, including Plug-and-Play, support for USB devices, power management features, and more. It's 25% faster than Windows 98 and three times as stable. Unfortunately, despite all the enhancements, Microsoft forgot to address one of NT's most glaring omissions: Windows 2000 doesn't include a printed user's manual. In Windows 2000 Pro: The Missing Manual, bestselling Windows NT author Sharon Crawford provides the ideal (and desperately needed) user's guide for the world's most popular corporate operating system. The book covers:Customer Reviews:
Not quite what I was expecting.......2003-11-16
This book sets on my desk.......2003-05-08
AN EXPRESS TRAIN HEADING FOR WINDOWS 2000.......2003-02-23
A good fit for me.......2002-10-05
It was especially gratifying to read on last page of the book (the colophon), "The book was designed and laid out ... on a Power Mac 8500 and Power Mac G3. Ah, memories of home.
As advertised - no more, no less.......2002-02-11
This book is exactly what it says - the missing complete user's manual. It doesn't claim to be overly technical, but it gets you past all of the essentials. It's well-written and well-organized with useful illustrations, so finding anything is a snap.
After using Win2k at work for years, I recently upgraded my primary home system to it. Rather than hunt my way through the menus, I picked up this book and had both my new system and home network set up in almost no time.
This is the sort of book I may only need to refer to once or twice in my life, but the time it has saved me so far more than compensates for the small investment. If your time costs less than mine or you're looking for something more technical, it might not be for you, but for me it was perfect.
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Catastrophic Risk: Analysis and Management (The Wiley Finance Series)
Erik Banks Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0470012366 |
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Catastrophic risk is one of the most significant and challenging areas of corporate risk management. Analyze this risk for your company with Catastrophic Risk and make sure you have sufficient resources to absorb losses and avoid financial distress.The first comprehensive volume to address this topic from a financial perspective, this book is a guide to the worst financial risks threatening companies and industries today. Author Eric Banks begins with a consideration of catastrophe and its mplications, looks at the state of actuarial and financial modelling of catastrophe risks, and discusses the creation of a risk management framework that will enable the efficient and secure management of exposure. Catastrophic Risk is essential reading if you're a corporate treasurer, CFO, or insurance/financial risk manager responsible for corporate risk management. Order your copy today.
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Catastrophic risk is one of the most significant and challenging areas of corporate risk management. Analyze this risk for your company with Catastrophic Risk and make sure you have sufficient resources to absorb losses and avoid financial distress. The first comprehensive volume to address this topic from a financial perspective, this book is a guide to the worst financial risks threatening companies and industries today. Author Eric Banks begins with a consideration of catastrophe and its mplications, looks at the state of actuarial and financial modelling of catastrophe risks, and discusses the creation of a risk management framework that will enable the efficient and secure management of exposure. Catastrophic Risk is essential reading if you're a corporate treasurer, CFO, or insurance/financial risk manager responsible for corporate risk management. Order your copy today.
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Emerging issues in managing catastrophic loss. : An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0009GTJCK Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on December 13, 2004. The length of the article is 1051 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Software links cat risk, capital mkts. (catastrophic risk insurance, markets): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Joe Niedzielski Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00096LAFY Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on July 29, 1996. The length of the article is 830 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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U.S. Re offers new cat computer model program. (risk analysis software for measuring catastrophic reinsurance needs): An article from: National Underwriter ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
John Jennings Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00096LLBC Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on August 5, 1996. The length of the article is 493 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Global hazards and catastrophic risk: Assessments, practitioners, and decision making in reinsurance (BCSIA discussion paper)
Mojdeh Keykhah Manufacturer: Environment and Natural Resources Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006RPJFS |
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Dialectic Of Nihilism: Post-structuralism And Law
Gillian Rose Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0631137084 |
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This book fundamentally challenges the radical credentials of post-structuralism. Though Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze claim to have 'deconstructed' metaphysics, their work has much in common with previous attempts to 'end' the metaphysical tradition, from Kant to Nietzsche and Heidegger, and by sociology in general. Gillian Rose shows that this anti-metaphysical writing always appears in historically specific jurisprudential terms, which themselves found and recapitulate metaphysical categories. She reconsiders post-structuralism in this light and assesses the relationship between deconstruction and the earlier structuralism of Saussure and Levi-Strauss. She argues in conclusion that the choice between post-structuralist nihilism and Hegelian and Marxist dialectic is spurious.Customer Reviews:
The totalitarianism of non-trinitarian Western thought.......2006-05-19
Intriguing study of modern "radical" streams of thought........1997-07-29
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DIALECTIC OF NIHILISM. Post-Structuralism and Law.
Gillian: Rose Manufacturer: Pan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000W2X4W2 |
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Dialectic of nihilism; post-structuralism and law.
Gillian Rose Manufacturer: Oxford, Basil Blackwell, [ ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000P26DRW |
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Crop Ecology: Productivity and Management in Agricultural Systems
R. S. Loomis , and D. J. Connor Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0521387760 |
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This book is centered on the "production processes" of crops and pastures, photosynthesis, and use of water and nutrients in fields. It is unique in its combination of great breadth and depth in its treatment of production processes and systems problems. The approach is explanatory and integrative, with a firm basis in environmental physics, soils, physiology, and morphology, in contrast to descriptive or reductionist approaches. Systems concepts are introduced early and expanded as the book proceeds, giving emphasis to quantitative approaches, to management strategies and tactics employed by farmers, and to environmental issues. The systems approach is brought together in the final chapters where production and nutrient cycling are analyzed, for example farms and problems in an uncertain future are considered. The book is designed for use as a text for an introductory course in crop ecology (advanced undergraduates and beginning post-graduate level). In addition, given the wide range of subjects, the integrated references, and the background material included, it can also be considered a "stand-alone" reference work useful to agriculturalists and botanists.Customer Reviews:
Erroneous, Poorly Organized and Derisive in Places.......2005-03-21
Not for all but great for those who need it........2004-03-12
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Growth, Stagnation or Decline?: Agricultural Productivity in British India (Oxford in India Readings)
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 019563019X |
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The question of growth and stagnation in Indian agriculture over the colonial period which is the subject of this volume, has been central to the debates on the impact of colonialism. The early estimates of George Blyn and Sivasubramoniam offered a gloomy scenario of twentieth century Indian agriculture, with yields failing to keep pace with population. This pessimistic picture was subsequently questioned in two ways. Disputing the reliability of agricultural statistics, historians suggested that no calculation of trends in yields was possible. Others recalculated the figures and doubted the basis of Blyn's pessimism. One commentator, Alan Heston, argued that the apparent downward trend in yields was the result of flawed estimation procedures, and needed to be revised.
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Climate Change and Global Crop Productivity
Manufacturer: CABI ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0851994393 |
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Worldwide climatic changes have been raising concerns about potential changes to crop yields and production systems. Such concerns include the ability to accommodate these uncertain effects in order to ensure an adequate food supply for an increasing population. Written by leading international experts, this book is the first comprehensive examination of the potential effects climate change, particularly green house gases, will have on agroecosystems. It also reviews the effects such systems have on climate change itself.
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Exploitation of Physiological & Genetic Variability to Enhance Crop Productivity
Manufacturer: Amer Society of Plant Physiologists ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0943088062 |
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Erosion and Soil Productivity: Proceedings of the National Symposium on Erosion and Soil Productivity, December 10-11, 1984, Hyatt Regency New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana (Asae Publication, 85-8.)
National Symposium on Fracture Mechanics Manufacturer: Amer Society of Agricultural ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0916150690 |
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The Analysis of Response in Crop and Livestock Production (Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Social Studies)
John L. Dillon , and Jock R. Anderson Manufacturer: Pergamon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0080374948 |
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Abiotic Stresses and Crop Productivity
S.R. Maloo Manufacturer: Agrotech Publishing Academy ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 8185680760 |
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Agro-ecological land resources assessment for agricultural development planning: A case study of Kenya : resources data base and land productivity (World soil resources reports)
Manufacturer: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 9251032998 |
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Agro-ecological land resources assessment for agricultural development planning: A case study of Kenya : resources data base and land productivity (World soil resources reports)
Manufacturer: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 9251033072 |
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Agrosphere: Nutrient Dynamics, Ecology, and Productivity
K. R. Krishna Manufacturer: Science Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1578082757 |
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